Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books

By Eliot, Charles William

Book Id: WPLBN0002953305
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Reproduction Date: 2012

Title:	Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books
Author:	Eliot, Charles William
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Language:	English
Subject:	Non-fiction, Literature
Collections:	Audio Books Collection, Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books
Historic Publication Date:	1909
Publisher:	LibriVox Audio Books


Citation APA MLA Chicago William Eliot, B. C. (1909). Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books. Retrieved from http://gutenberg.cc/

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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)

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