| No part of a book is so intimate as the Preface. |
| —Introduction |
Harvard Classics, Vol. 39
Prefaces and Prologues
To Famous Books
Each of the prefaces and prologues in this volume is a complete work of literature unto itself, offering a unique insight to the thoughts of its author.
Contents
NEW YORK: P.F. COLLIER & SON COMPANY, 1909–14
NEW YORK: BARTLEBY.COM, 2001
- William Caxton
- The Recuyell of the Histories of Troy
- Epilogue to Dictes and Sayings of the Philosophers
- Prologue to Golden Legend
- Prologue to Caton (1483)
- Epilogue to Aesop (1483)
- Proem to Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales
- Prologue to Malory’s King Arthur (1485)
- John Calvin
- Dedication of the Institutes of the Christian Religion
- Nicolaus Copernicus
- Dedication of the Revolutions of the Heavenly Bodies to Pope Paul III
- John Knox
- Preface to The History of the Reformation In Scotland
- Edmund Spenser
- Prefatory Letter to Sir Walter Raleigh On The Faerie Queene
- Sir Walter Raleigh
- Preface to the History of the World
- Francis Bacon
- Proœmium of the Instauratio Magna
- Epistle Dedicatory to the Instauratio Magna
- Preface to the Instauratio Magna
- The Plan of the Instauratio Magna
- Preface to the Novum Organum
- Henrie Condell and Iohn Heminge
- Preface to the First Folio Edition of Shakespeare’s Plays
- Sir Isaac Newton
- Preface to the Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica
- John Dryden
- Preface to Fables, Ancient and Modern
- Henry Fielding
- Preface to Joseph Andrews
- Samuel Johnson
- Preface to the English Dictionary
- Letter to the Right Honorable the Earl of Chesterfield
- Preface to Shakespeare
- J. W. von Goethe
- Introduction to the Propyläen