Prefaces and prologues to famous books

Preface to Major Barbara: First Aid to Critics

On the Prospects of Christianity Bernard Shaw's Preface to Androcles and the Lion

[Einleitung zu:] Thomas Carlyle, Leben Schillers

Prefaces to Four Seventeenth-Century Romances Roger Boyle, Lord Broghill, preface to Parthenissa (1655) Sir George Mackenzie, "Apologie for romances," prefixed to Aretina, the serious romance (1660) Nathaniel Ingelo, preface to Bentivolio and Urania (1660) Robert Boyle, preface to Theodora and Didymus (1687)