The Harvard Classics, Vol. 39: Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books; With Introduction and Notes (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Eliot, Charles William

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0483506494 ISBN 13: 9780483506497

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2018

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Excerpt from The Harvard Classics, Vol. 39: Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books; With Introduction and Notes

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, accord ing 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.

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• Verlag: Forgotten Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• ISBN 10: 0483506494
• ISBN 13: 9780483506497
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 448
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