Audiobook: Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books
- Download Introductory Notes audio
- Download Prologues & Epilogues to the History of Troy and other writings by William Caxton, Part 1 audio
- Download Prologues & Epilogues to the History of Troy and other writings, Part 2 audio
- Download Dedication of The Institutes of the Christian Religion by John Calvin audio
- Download General Syllabus by John Calvin audio
- Download Dedication of The Revolutions of the Heavenly Bodies by Nicolaus Copernicus audio
- Download Preface to the History of the Reformation in Scotland by John Knox audio
- Download Prefatory Letter to Sir Walter Raleigh on The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser audio
- Download Preface to The History of the World by Sir Walter Raleigh, Part 1 audio
- Download Preface to The History of the World, Part 2 audio
- Download Preface to The History of the World, Part 3 audio
- Download Preface to The History of the World, Part 4 audio
- Download Preface and Plan of The Instauratio Magna by Sir Francis Bacon, Part 1 audio
- Download Preface and Plan of The Instauratio Magna, Part 2 audio
- Download Preface and Plan of The Instauratio Magna, Part 3 audio
- Download Preface to the First Folio Edition of Shakespeare's Plays by John Heminge audio
- Download Preface to The Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica by Sir Isaac Newton audio
- Download Preface to Fables, Ancient and Modern by John Dryden, Part 1 audio
- Download Preface to Fables, Ancient and Modern, Part 2 audio
- Download Preface to Joseph Andrews by Henry Fielding audio
- Download Preface to the English Dictionary by Samuel Johnson audio
- Download To the Earl of Chesterfield by Samuel Johnson audio
- Download Preface to Shakespeare by Samuel Johnson, Part 1 audio
- Download Preface to Shakespeare, Part 2 audio
- Download Preface to Shakespeare, Part 3 audio
- Download Introduction to The Propylaen by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe audio
- Download Prefaces to Poems by William Wordsworth, Part 1 audio
- Download Prefaces to Poems, Part 2 audio
- Download Prefaces to Poems, Part 3 audio
- Download Prefaces to Poems, Part 4 audio
- Download Prefaces to Poems, Part 5 audio
- Download Preface to Cromwell by Victor Hugo, Part 1 audio
- Download Preface to Cromwell, Part 2 audio
- Download Preface to Cromwell, Part 3 audio
- Download Preface to Cromwell, Part 4 audio
- Download Preface to Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman, Part 1 audio
- Download Preface to Leaves of Grass, Part 2 audio
- Download Introduction to The History of English Literature by H. A. Taine, Part 1 audio
- Download Introduction to The History of English Literature, Part 2 audio
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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)
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