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)

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