Harvard Classics Volume 39

Prefaces And Prologues

Contents: 1. Prefaces and Epilogues, by William Caxton 2. Dedication Of The Institutes Of The Christian Religion, by John Calvin 3. Dedication of the Revolutions of the Heavenly Bodies, by Nicolaus Copernicus 4. Preface to The History of the Reformation In Scotland, by John Knox 5. Prefatory Letter to Sir Walter Raleigh On The Faerie Queene, by Edmund Spenser 6. Preface to the History of the World, by Sir Walter Raleigh 7. Proœmium of the Instauratio Magna, Epistle Dedicatory to the Instauratio Magna, Preface to the Instauratio Magna, The Plan of the Instauratio Magna and Preface to the Novum Organum, by Francis Bacon 8. Preface to the First Folio Edition of Shakespeare's Plays, by Henrie Condell and Iohn Heminge 9. Preface to the Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, by Sir Isaac Newton 10. Preface to Fables, Ancient and Modern, by John Dryden 11. Preface to Joseph Andrews, by Henry Fielding 12. Preface to the English Dictionary and Preface to Shakespeare, by Samuel Johnson 13. Introduction to the Propyläen, by J. W. von Goethe 14. Advertisement to Lyrical Ballads, Preface to Lyrical Ballads, Appendix to Lyrical Ballads, Preface to Poems and Essay Supplementary to Preface, by William Wordsworth 15. Preface to Cromwell, by Victor Hugo 16. Preface to Leaves of Grass, by Walt Whitman 17. Introduction to the History of English Literature, by Hippolyte Adolphe Taine Also available: The Complete Harvard Classics Collection (51 Volumes + The Harvard Classic Shelf Of Fiction) 50 Masterpieces You Have To Read Before You Die (Golden Deer Classics)