Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books

Author(s): Various, Charles William Eliot

Narrators: Martin Geeson, MaryAnn, Availle, Doublemirrors, Bob Neufeld, Martin Gradwell, Denny Sayers (d. 2015), Ernst Pattynama, TriciaG, Leni, Kalynda

Number of Chapters: 39

Length: 21 hours and 28 minutes

Language: English

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)

Introductory Notes (Martin Geeson)

Prologues & Epilogues to the History of Troy and other writings by William Caxton, Part 1 (Martin Geeson)

Prologues & Epilogues to the History of Troy and other writings, Part 2 (Martin Geeson)

Dedication of The Institutes of the Christian Religion by John Calvin (MaryAnn)

General Syllabus by John Calvin (MaryAnn)

Dedication of The Revolutions of the Heavenly Bodies by Nicolaus Copernicus (Availle)

Preface to the History of the Reformation in Scotland by John Knox (doublemirrors)

Prefatory Letter to Sir Walter Raleigh on The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser (Martin Geeson)

Preface to The History of the World by Sir Walter Raleigh, Part 1 (Bob Neufeld)

Preface to The History of the World, Part 2 (Bob Neufeld)

Preface to The History of the World, Part 3 (Bob Neufeld)

Preface to The History of the World, Part 4 (Bob Neufeld)

Preface and Plan of The Instauratio Magna by Sir Francis Bacon, Part 1 (Bob Neufeld)

Preface and Plan of The Instauratio Magna, Part 2 (Bob Neufeld)

Preface and Plan of The Instauratio Magna, Part 3 (Martin Gradwell)

Preface to the First Folio Edition of Shakespeare's Plays by John Heminge (Martin Geeson)

Preface to The Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica by Sir Isaac Newton (Availle)

Preface to Fables, Ancient and Modern by John Dryden, Part 1 (Martin Geeson)

Preface to Fables, Ancient and Modern, Part 2 (Martin Geeson)

Preface to Joseph Andrews by Henry Fielding (Denny Sayers (d. 2015))

Preface to the English Dictionary by Samuel Johnson (Denny Sayers (d. 2015))

To the Earl of Chesterfield by Samuel Johnson (Denny Sayers (d. 2015))

Preface to Shakespeare by Samuel Johnson, Part 1 (Denny Sayers (d. 2015))

Preface to Shakespeare, Part 2 (Denny Sayers (d. 2015))

Preface to Shakespeare, Part 3 (Denny Sayers (d. 2015))

Introduction to The Propylaen by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Ernst Pattynama)

Prefaces to Poems by William Wordsworth, Part 1 (TriciaG)

Prefaces to Poems, Part 2 (TriciaG)

Prefaces to Poems, Part 3 (TriciaG)

Prefaces to Poems, Part 4 (TriciaG)

Prefaces to Poems, Part 5 (TriciaG)

Preface to Cromwell by Victor Hugo, Part 1 (Leni)

Preface to Cromwell, Part 2 (Leni)

Preface to Cromwell, Part 3 (Leni)

Preface to Cromwell, Part 4 (Leni)

Preface to Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman, Part 1 (Denny Sayers (d. 2015))

Preface to Leaves of Grass, Part 2 (Denny Sayers (d. 2015))

Introduction to The History of English Literature by H. A. Taine, Part 1 (Kalynda)

Introduction to The History of English Literature, Part 2 (Kalynda)

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