Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books


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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) (21 hr 28 min)

Chapitres

Introductory Notes 7:48 Lu par Martin Geeson
Prologues & Epilogues to the History of Troy and other writings by William Caxt… 40:22 Lu par Martin Geeson
Prologues & Epilogues to the History of Troy and other writings, Part 2 35:19 Lu par Martin Geeson
Dedication of The Institutes of the Christian Religion by John Calvin 51:42 Lu par MaryAnn
General Syllabus by John Calvin 10:20 Lu par MaryAnn
Dedication of The Revolutions of the Heavenly Bodies by Nicolaus Copernicus 15:50 Lu par Availle
Preface to the History of the Reformation in Scotland by John Knox 6:04 Lu par doublemirrors
Prefatory Letter to Sir Walter Raleigh on The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser 15:24 Lu par Martin Geeson
Preface to The History of the World by Sir Walter Raleigh, Part 1 42:52 Lu par Bob Neufeld
Preface to The History of the World, Part 2 45:55 Lu par Bob Neufeld
Preface to The History of the World, Part 3 29:23 Lu par Bob Neufeld
Preface to The History of the World, Part 4 24:53 Lu par Bob Neufeld
Preface and Plan of The Instauratio Magna by Sir Francis Bacon, Part 1 36:16 Lu par Bob Neufeld
Preface and Plan of The Instauratio Magna, Part 2 33:28 Lu par Bob Neufeld
Preface and Plan of The Instauratio Magna, Part 3 14:26 Lu par Martin Gradwell
Preface to the First Folio Edition of Shakespeare's Plays by John Heminge 6:03 Lu par Martin Geeson
Preface to The Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica by Sir Isaac Newton 8:38 Lu par Availle
Preface to Fables, Ancient and Modern by John Dryden, Part 1 43:18 Lu par Martin Geeson
Preface to Fables, Ancient and Modern, Part 2 42:16 Lu par Martin Geeson
Preface to Joseph Andrews by Henry Fielding 20:19 Lu par Denny Sayers (d. 2015)
Preface to the English Dictionary by Samuel Johnson 36:10 Lu par Denny Sayers (d. 2015)
To the Earl of Chesterfield by Samuel Johnson 49:52 Lu par Denny Sayers (d. 2015)
Preface to Shakespeare by Samuel Johnson, Part 1 50:30 Lu par Denny Sayers (d. 2015)
Preface to Shakespeare, Part 2 51:56 Lu par Denny Sayers (d. 2015)
Preface to Shakespeare, Part 3 30:58 Lu par Denny Sayers (d. 2015)
Introduction to The Propylaen by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 46:54 Lu par Ernst Pattynama
Prefaces to Poems by William Wordsworth, Part 1 38:03 Lu par TriciaG
Prefaces to Poems, Part 2 40:43 Lu par TriciaG
Prefaces to Poems, Part 3 35:04 Lu par TriciaG
Prefaces to Poems, Part 4 35:42 Lu par TriciaG
Prefaces to Poems, Part 5 33:01 Lu par TriciaG
Preface to Cromwell by Victor Hugo, Part 1 46:57 Lu par Leni
Preface to Cromwell, Part 2 45:20 Lu par Leni
Preface to Cromwell, Part 3 38:00 Lu par Leni
Preface to Cromwell, Part 4 36:55 Lu par Leni
Preface to Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman, Part 1 42:04 Lu par Denny Sayers (d. 2015)
Preface to Leaves of Grass, Part 2 34:53 Lu par Denny Sayers (d. 2015)
Introduction to The History of English Literature by H. A. Taine, Part 1 29:12 Lu par Kalynda
Introduction to The History of English Literature, Part 2 36:00 Lu par Kalynda