Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books
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Variousandcharles William Eliot
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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Prologues & Epilogues to the History of Troy and other writings by William Caxt…
40:22
Read by Martin Geeson
Prefatory Letter to Sir Walter Raleigh on The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser
15:24
Read by Martin Geeson
Preface to the First Folio Edition of Shakespeare's Plays by John Heminge
6:03
Read by Martin Geeson
Preface to The Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica by Sir Isaac Newton
8:38
Read by Availle