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