Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books

by Charles William Eliot

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Charles W. Eliot, 21st President of Harvard University, edited this volume of prefaces ... authored by a Who's Who of World Literature: Bacon, Calvin, Caxton, Condell, Copernicus, Dryden, Fielding, Goethe, Heminge, Hugo, Johnson, Knox, Newton, Raleigh, Spenser, Taine, Whitman and Wordsworth. Eliot wrote in his preface to these prefaces, "No part of a book is so intimate as the Preface. Here, after the long labor of the work is over, the author descends from his platform, and speaks with his reader as man to man, disclosing his hopes and fears, seeking sympathy for his difficulties, offering defence or defiance, according to his temper, against the criticisms which he anticipates." (Summary by DSayers)

Chapters

00 - Introductory Notes by Charles W. Eliot, Editor

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01 - Prologues & Epilogues to the History of Troy and other writings, Part 1 by William Caxton

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02 - Prologues & Epilogues to the History of Troy and other writings, Part 2 by William Caxton

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03 - Dedication of The Institutes of the Christian Religion by John Calvin

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04 - General Syllabus by John Calvin

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05 - Dedication of The Revolutions of the Heavenly Bodies by Nicolaus Copernicus

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06 - Preface to the History of the Reformation in Scotland by John Knox

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07 - Prefatory Letter to Sir Walter Raleigh on The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser

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08 - Preface to The History of the World, Part 1 by Sir Walter Raleigh

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09 - Preface to The History of the World, Part 2 by Sir Walter Raleigh

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10 - Preface to The History of the World, Part 3 by Sir Walter Raleigh

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11 - Preface to The History of the World, Part 4 by Sir Walter Raleigh

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12 - Preface and Plan of The Instauratio Magna, Part 1 by Francis Bacon

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13 - Preface and Plan of The Instauratio Magna, Part 2 by Francis Bacon

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14 - Preface and Plan of The Instauratio Magna, Part 3 by Francis Bacon

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15 - Preface to the First Folio Edition of Shakespeare's Plays by John Heminge & Henrie Condel

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16 - Preface to The Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica by Sir Isaac Newton

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17 - Preface to Fables, Ancient and Modern, Part 1 by John Dryden

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18 - Preface to Fables, Ancient and Modern, Part 2 by John Dryden

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19 - Preface to Joseph Andrews by Henry Fielding

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20 - Preface to the English Dictionary, Part 1 by Samuel Johnson

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21 - Preface to the English Dictionary, Part 2 and To the Earl of Chesterfield by Samuel Johnson

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22 - Preface to Shakespeare, Part 1 by Samuel Johnson

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23 - Preface to Shakespeare, Part 2 by Samuel Johnson

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24 - Preface to Shakespeare, Part 3 by Samuel Johnson

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25 - Introduction to The Propylaen. by J. W. Von Goethe

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26 - Prefaces to Poems, Part 1 by William Wordsworth

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27 - Prefaces to Poems, Part 2 by William Wordsworth

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28 - Prefaces to Poems, Part 3 by William Wordsworth

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29 - Prefaces to Poems, Part 4 by William Wordsworth

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30 - Prefaces to Poems, Part 5 by William Wordsworth

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31 - Preface to Cromwell, Part 1 by Victor Hugo

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32 - Preface to Cromwell, Part 2 by Victor Hugo

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33 - Preface to Cromwell, Part 3 by Victor Hugo

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34 - Preface to Cromwell, Part 4 by Victor Hugo

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35 - Preface to Leaves of Grass, Part 1 by Walt Whitman

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36 - Preface to Leaves of Grass, Part 2 by Walt Whitman

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37 - Introduction to The History of English Literature, Part 1 by H. A. Taine

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38 - Introduction to The History of English Literature, Part 2 by H. A. Taine

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