| Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books: Part 39 Harvard Classics Contributor(s): Eliot, Charles W. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1432621564 ISBN-13: 9781432621568 Publisher: Kessinger Publishing OUR PRICE: $52.20 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: January 2004 Annotation: Contents: William Caxton: Title, Prologue and Epilogues to the Recuyell of the Histories of Troy; Epilogue to Dictes; Prologue to Golden Legend, Caton, Aesop; Proem to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales; Prologue to Malory's King Arthur and Virgil's Eneydos. John Calvin: Dedication of the Institutes of the Christian Religion. Nicolaus Copernicus: Dedication of the Revolutions of the Heavenly Bodies. John Knox: Preface to the History of the Reformation in Scotland. Edmund Spenser: prefatory Letter to Sir Walter Raleigh on the Faerie Queene. Sir Walter Raleigh: Preface to the History of the World. Francis Bacon: Prooemium, Epistle Dedicatory, Preface, and Plan of the Instauratio Magna. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Books & Reading - Literary Collections | Caribbean & Latin American - Religion | Inspirational |
| Physical Information: 1.19" H x 6" W x 9" (1.88 lbs) 468 pages |
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