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Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books With Introductions, Notes and Illustrations

By Charles William Eliot

2019-03-13 23:15:43

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, o ... Read more
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. It thus happens that a personality which has been veiled by a formal method throughout many chapters, is suddenly seen face to face in the Preface; and this alone, if there were no other reason, would justify a volume of Prefaces. Less

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File size427.365 KB
Print pages492
PublisherPublic Domain Books
LanguageEnglish
ISBN978-1426483028
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Charles William Eliot
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Born in Boston, Massachusetts, The United States March 20, 1834 Died: August 25, 1926 Genre: History, Nonfiction Charles William Eliot was an American academic who was selected as Harvard's presi...

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