| title | creator | language | description | tableOfContents | contributor | subject | created |
| Prefaces to Fiction | Various | en | Augustan Reprint Society, publication number 32 | de Scudéry, Preface to Ibrahim (1674)
Manley, Preface to The Secret History of Queen Zarah (1705)
de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens, Preface to The Jewish Spy (1744)
Warburton, Preface to Richardson's Clarissa Vol. III and IV (1748)
Derrick, Preface to d'Argens's Memoirs of The Count Du Beauval (1754). | | | 2004-12-30 |
| Roman and the Teuton | Kingsley, Charles, 1819-1875 | en | Preface by Professor F. Max Muller -- The Forest Children -- The Dying Empire -- Preface to Lecture III -- The Human Deluge -- The Gothic Civilizer -- Dietrich's End -- The Nemesis of the Goths -- Paulus Diaconus -- The Clergy and the Heathen -- The Monk | Contents: | | Germanic tribes; Middle Ages -- History; Rome -- History -- Germanic Invasions, 3rd-6th centuries | 2003-03-01 |
| Preface to the Works of Shakespeare (1734) | Theobald, Lewis, 1688-1744 | en | | | Dick, Hugh G. [Commentator] | | 2005-07-22 |
| The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt | Casanova, Giacomo, 1725-1798 | en | | Casanova at Dux -- Author's preface -- Translator's preface -- Childhood and adolescence -- A cleric in Naples -- Military career -- Return to Venice -- Milan and Mantua -- Paris -- Venice -- Convent affairs -- The false nun -- Under the leads -- Paris and Holland -- Return to Paris -- Holland and Germany -- Switzerland -- With Voltaire -- Depart Switzerland -- Return to Italy -- Return to Naples -- Back again to Paris -- Milan -- South of France -- To London -- The English -- London to Berlin -- Russia and Poland -- Spain -- Expelled from Spain -- Rome -- Florence to Trieste -- Old age and death. | Machen, Arthur, 1863-1947 [Translator] | Casanova, Giacomo, 1725-1798; Europe -- History -- 18th century -- Biography | 2004-11-11 |
| The Doctor's Dilemma: Preface on Doctors | Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950 | en | | | | | 2004-02-01 |
| 'Of Genius', in The Occasional Paper, and Preface to The Creation | Hill, Aaron, 1685-1750 | en | Augustan Reprint Society, publication number 18 | | Pahl, Gretchen Graf [Commentator] | | 2005-05-20 |
| The Preface to Aristotle's Art of Poetry | Dacier, André, 1651-1722 | en | | | Monk, Samuel Holt [Editor] | | 2009-07-30 |
| Bernard Shaw's Preface to Androcles and the Lion | Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950 | en | | | | Prefaces; Essays; Christianity | 2003-05-01 |
| Bernard Shaw's Preface to Major Barbara | Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950 | en | | | | | 2003-02-01 |
| Mark Twain's Speeches | Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 | en | | Introduction
Preface
The story of a speech
Plymouth Rock and the pilgrims
Compliments and degrees
Books, authors, and hats
Dedication speech
The horrors of the German language | | | 2004-09-17 |
| Dutch Courage and Other Stories | London, Jack, 1876-1916 | en | | Preface -- Dutch courage -- Typhoon off the coast of Japan -- The lost poacher -- The banks of the Sacramento -- Chris Farrington: Able seaman -- To Repel Boarders -- An Adventure in the upper sea -- Bald-face -- In Yeddo bay -- Whose business is to live. | | | 2004-12-24 |
| Selected Prose of Oscar Wilde | Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900 | en | | Preface by Robert Ross -- How They Struck a Contemporary -- The Quality of George Meredith -- Life in the Fallacious Model -- Life the Disciple -- Life the Plagiarist -- The Indispensable East -- The Influence of the Impressionists on Climate -- | | Essays; Short stories | 1998-06-01 |
| The Renaissance
Studies in Art and Poetry | Pater, Walter, 1839-1894 | en | | Preface -- Two early French stories -- Pico della Mirandola -- Sandro Botticelli -- Luca della Robbia -- The poetry of Michelangelo -- Leonardo da Vinci -- The school of Giorgione -- Joachim du Bellay -- Winckelmann -- Conclusion. | | Arts, Renaissance; Renaissance; Renaissance -- Italy | 2000-11-01 |
| A Preface to Politics | Lippmann, Walter, 1889-1974 | en | | Introduction -- Routineer and inventor -- The taboo -- The changing focus -- The golden rule and after -- Well meaning but unmeaning: the Chicago vice report -- Some necessary iconoclasm -- The making of creeds -- The red herring -- Revolution and culture. | | Social problems -- United States; United States -- Politics and government | 2006-12-16 |
| Epistle to a Friend Concerning Poetry (1700) and the Essay on Heroic Poetry (second edition, 1697) | Wesley, Samuel, 1662-1735 | en | | An epistle to a friend concerning poetry --
The preface [to the life of our Blessed Lord & Saviour Jesus Christ. An heroic poem: dedicated to Her Most Sacred Majesty. In Ten Books.], Being an Essay on Heroic Poetry. | Hooker, Edward N. (Edward Niles), -1957 [Author of introduction, etc.] | | 2005-08-10 |
| Tales and Novels of J. de La Fontaine — Complete | La Fontaine, Jean de, 1621-1695 | en | | La Fontaine's life -- Preface -- Joconde -- The Cudgelled and Contented Cuckold -- The Husband Confessor -- The Cobbler -- The Peasant and His Angry Lord -- The Muleteer -- The Servant Girl Justified -- The Three Gossips' Wager -- The Old Man's Calendar -- The Avaricious Wife and Tricking Gallant -- The Jealous Husband -- The Gascon Punished -- The Princess Betrothed to the King of Garba -- The Magick Cup -- The Falcon -- The Little Dog -- The Eel Pie -- The Magnificent -- The Ephesian Matron -- Belphegor -- The Little Bell -- The Glutton -- The Two Friends -- The Country Justice Alice Sick -- The Kiss Returned -- Sister Jane -- An Imitation of Anacreon -- Another Imitation of Anacreon -- Preface To The Second Book -- Friar Philip's Geese -- Richard Minutolo -- The Monks of Catalonia -- The Cradle -- St. Julian's Prayer -- The Countryman Who Sought His Calf -- Hans Carvel's Ring -- The Hermit -- The Convent -- Gardener of Lamporechio -- The Mandrake -- The Rhemese -- The Amorous Courtesan -- Nicaise -- The Progress of Wit -- The Sick Abbess -- The Truckers -- The Case of Conscience -- The Devil of Pope-fig Island -- Feronde -- The Psalter -- King Candaules and the Doctor of Laws -- The Devil in Hell -- Neighbour Peter's Mare -- The Spectacles -- The Bucking Tub -- The Impossible Thing -- The Picture -- The Pack-Saddle -- The Ear-maker, and the Mould-mender -- The River Scamander -- The Confidant Without Knowing It, or the Stratagem -- The Clyster -- The Indiscreet Confession -- The Contract -- The Quid Pro Quo, or the Mistakes -- The Dress-maker -- The Gascon -- The Pitcher -- To Promise is One Thing, to Keep It, Another -- The Nightingale -- Epitaph of La Fontaine. | | | 2004-09-21 |
| Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare | Nesbit, E. (Edith), 1858-1924 | en | | Preface -- A brief life of Shakespeare -- A midsummer night's dream -- The tempest -- As you like it -- The winter's tale -- King Lear -- Twelfth night -- Much ado about nothing -- Romeo and Juliet -- Pericles -- Hamlet -- Cymbeline -- Macbeth -- The comedy of errors -- The merchant of Venice -- Timon of Athens -- Othello -- The taming of the shrew -- Measure for measure -- Two gentlemen of Verona -- All's well that ends well -- Pronouncing vocabulary of names -- Quotations from Shakespeare. | | | 1998-08-01 |
| The Book of Wonder | Dunsany, Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, Baron, 1878-1957 | en | | Preface -- The Bride of the Man-Horse -- Distressing Tale of Thangobrind The Jeweller -- The House of the Sphinx -- Probable Adventure of the Three Literary Men -- The Injudicious Prayers of Pombo the Idolater -- The Loot of Bombasharna -- Miss Cubbidge and the Dragon Of Romance -- The Quest of the Queen's Tears -- The Hoard of the Gibbelins -- How Nuth Would Have Practised His Art Upon the Gnoles -- How One Came, As Was Foretold, to the City Of Never -- The Coronation of Mr. Thomas Shap -- Chu-Bu and Sheemish -- The Wonderful Window -- Epilogue. | | | 2005-02-01 |
| Clarissa: Preface, Hints of Prefaces, and Postscript | Richardson, Samuel, 1689-1761 | en | | | Brissenden, R. F. [Editor] | Conflict of generations -- Fiction; England -- Fiction; Epistolary fiction; Kidnapping victims -- Fiction; Psychological fiction; Rape victims -- Fiction; Young women -- Crimes against -- Fiction; Richardson, Samuel, 1689-1761. Clarissa | 2009-09-12 |
| Peak and Prairie
From a Colorado Sketch-book | Fuller, Anna, 1853-1916 | en | | Preface -- A pilgrim in the far West -- Brian Boru -- Jake Stanwood's gal -- At the Keith ranch -- The Rumpety case -- The Lame Gulch professor -- The boss of the wheel -- Mr. Fetherbee's adventure -- An amateur gamble -- A Rocky Mountain shipwreck -- A stroke in the game -- The blizzard picnic -- A golden vista. | Moore, Emma G. [Illustrator] | Frontier and pioneer life -- Fiction; Colorado -- Social life and customs -- Fiction | 2007-08-03 |
| Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 01: Preface and Life | Pepys, Samuel, 1633-1703 | en | | | Bright, Mynors, 1818-1883 [Translator] | Pepys, Samuel, 1633-1703; Pepys, Samuel, 1633-1703 -- Diaries; Statesmen -- Great Britain -- Diaries; Authors, English -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- Diaries; Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 17th century | 2004-11-29 |
| Anarchism and Other Essays | Goldman, Emma, 1869-1940 | en | Includes biographic sketch by Hippolyte Havel. | Biographic Sketch Preface -- Anarchism: What It Really Stands For -- Minorities Versus Majorities -- The Psychology of Political Violence -- Prisons: A Social Crime and Failure -- Patriotism: A Menace to Liberty -- Francisco Ferrer and The Modern School -- The Hypocrisy of Puritanism -- The Traffic in Women -- Woman Suffrage -- The Tragedy of Woman's Emancipation -- Marriage and Love -- The Drama: A Powerful Disseminator of Radical Thought. | | Women -- Social and moral questions; Feminism; Anarchism | 2000-04-01 |
| Half-hours with the Telescope
Being a Popular Guide to the Use of the Telescope as a
Means of Amusement and Instruction. | Proctor, Richard A. (Richard Anthony), 1837-1888 | en | Preface:
The object which the Author and Publisher of this little work have proposed to themselves, has been the production, at a moderate price, of a useful and reliable guide to the amateur telescopist.
Among the celestial phenomena described or f | Chapter I.
A Half-Hour on the Structure of the Telescope
Chapter II.
A Half-Hour with Orion, Lepus, Taurus, etc.
Chapter III.
A Half-Hour with Lyra, Hercules, Corvus, Crater, etc.
Chapter IV.
A Half-Hour with Bootes, Scorpio, Ophiuchus, etc.
Chapter V.
A Half-Hour with Andromeda, Cygnus, etc.
Chapter VI.
Half-Hours with the Planets
Chapter VII.
Half-Hours with the Sun and Moon | | Astronomy; Telescopes | 2005-09-28 |
| Complete Project Gutenberg Abraham Lincoln Writings | Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 | en | | Introduction by Theodore Roosevelt -- Editor's Preface by Arthur Brooks Lapsley -- Abraham Lincoln. An Essay by Carl Shurz -- Abraham Lincoln. Memorial Address by Joseph H. Choate -- The writings of Abraham Lincoln. | | United States -- Politics and government -- 1861-1865; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865; Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865; Illinois -- Politics and government -- To 1865; United States -- Politics and government -- 1849-1861; Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865. Selections; Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Ill., 1858 | 2004-10-01 |
| The Poetical Works of John Milton | Milton, John, 1608-1674 | en | | PREFACE by the Rev. H. C. Beeching, M. A.
THE STATIONER TO THE READER.
MISCELLANEOUS POEMS.
ON THE MORNING OF CHRISTS NATIVITY. / Compos'd 1629.
The Hymn.
THE PASSION.
On Time.
UPON THE CIRCUMCISION.
AT A SOLEMN MUSICK.
AN EPITAPH ON THE MARCHIONESS OF WINCHESTER.
SONG ON MAY MORNING.
ON SHAKESPEAR. 1630.
ANOTHER ON THE SAME.
L'ALLEGRO.
IL PENSEROSO.
SONNETS.
ARCADES.
LYCIDAS.
A MASK PRESENTED At LUDLOW-Castle, 1634. &c.
POEMS ADDED IN THE 1673 EDITION.
SONNETS.
On the new forcers of Conscience under the Long PARLIAMENT.
ON THE LORD GEN. FAIRFAX AT THE SEIGE OF COLCHESTER.
TO SR HENRY VANE THE YOUNGER.
TO MR. CYRIACK SKINNER UPON HIS BLINDNESS.
COLLECTION OF PASSAGES TRANSLATED IN THE PROSE WRITINGS.
[From Of Reformation in England, 1641.]
[From Reason of Church Government, 1641.]
[From Apology for Smectymnuus, 1642.]
[From Areopagitica, 1644.]
[From Tetrachordon, 1645.]
[From The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates, 1649.]
[From History of Britain, 1670.]
PARADISE LOST.
PARADISE REGAIN'D.
SAMSON AGONISTES
The ARGUMENT.
APPENDIX.
ON TIME | Beeching, H. C. (Henry Charles), 1859-1919 [Editor] | | 1999-05-01 |