Prefaces

Prefaces, that is to say pages written after the books themselves, in which he considers the books, and with which we must include here and there certain phrases beginning as a rule with a:

The Captive 2003

Now there is another thing book writers do in their Prefaces, which is to introduce a mass of nincompoops of whom no one ever heard, and to say 'my thanks are due to such and such' all in a litany, as though any one cared a farthing for the rats!

The Path to Rome Hilaire Belloc 1911

Although the official number of Shaw's plays is generally agreed to be 63, there are also bits of dialogue written by Shaw in some of his celebrated "Prefaces"; as well as other snippets in an interview in which he presses himself with questions regarding his first play,

BroadwayWorld.com Off-Broadway Stories 2009

The quotation appears on p. 304 of the 1820 edition, number 37 in the series The British Novelists, with an Essay, and Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, by Mrs. Barbauld, 2 vols (London, 1820), II.

Letter 413 2009

The Book of Prefaces by Alasdair Gray 2000 " The great Scottish writer who produced such classic novels as Lanark and Poor Things endeavored early in this decade to publish"¦a book of prefaces.

Shelfari: Omnivoracious 2010

The Book of Prefaces by Alasdair Gray 2000 " The great Scottish writer who produced such classic novels as Lanark and Poor Things endeavored early in this decade to publish"¦a book of prefaces.

Omni Decade Crush: From Barbery to Whittemore, Barry to Vollmann Omnivoracious 2010

The various Prefaces to the successive editions and the Appendix contain some wise observations on the relative and complementary features of various points of view and interpretations in psychology.

C. G. Jung and Psychosynthesis, by Roberto Assagioli William Harryman 2009

The Prefaces, I feel, were mainly useful to James himself, as he tried to explain, for readers of the New York Edition, exactly what he had once attempted in his fiction, and why he attempted it.

Literary Life: A Second Memoir Larry McMurtry 2009

See Also: Prefaces of AACR2 (1978, 1988, 1998 revisions)

Cataloging–History: A Brief History of AACR (Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules) « ResourceShelf 2007

Critical Editions of “Minhat Yehudah,” “Ezrat ha-Nashim” and “Ein Mishpat” with Prefaces, Variants, Sources and Annotations (Hebrew).

Medieval Hebrew Literature: Portrayal of Women. 2009