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Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books by Various

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

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20 - Preface to the English Dictionary, Part 1
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21 - Preface to the English Dictionary, Part 2 and To...
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22 - Preface to Shakespeare, Part 1
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23 - Preface to Shakespeare, Part 2
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24 - Preface to Shakespeare, Part 3
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25 - Introduction to The Propylaen.
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26 - Prefaces to Poems, Part 1
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27 - Prefaces to Poems, Part 2
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28 - Prefaces to Poems, Part 3
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29 - Prefaces to Poems, Part 4
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30 - Prefaces to Poems, Part 5
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31 - Preface to Cromwell, Part 1
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32 - Preface to Cromwell, Part 2
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33 - Preface to Cromwell, Part 3
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34 - Preface to Cromwell, Part 4
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35 - Preface to Leaves of Grass, Part 1
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36 - Preface to Leaves of Grass, Part 2
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37 - Introduction to The History of English...
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38 - Introduction to The History of English...
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