* 2003: Un autre monde ( l ' Herne, 2003 ), preface by Stanley Hoffmann, translator, Toward a new world: speeches, essays, and interviews on the war in Iraq, the UN, and the changing face of Europe ( Melville House Publishing, c2004 ), a selection of speeches by Villepin as Foreign Minister, with commentary by Hoffman, Susan Sontag, Carlos Fuentes, Norman Mailer, Régis Debray, Mario Vargas Llosa, others.

For example, early versions gave the book's title as Billy Budd, Foretopman, while it now seems clear Melville intended Billy Budd, Sailor: ( An Inside Narrative ); some versions wrongly included a chapter that Melville had excised as a preface ( the correct text has no preface ); some versions do not change the name of the ship to Bellipotent ( from the Latin bellum war and potens powerful ), from Indomitable, as Melville called her in an earlier draft.

Bede wrote a preface for the work, in which he dedicates it to Ceolwulf, king of Northumbria.

Bede acknowledged his correspondents in the preface to the Historia Ecclesiastica ; he was in contact with Daniel, the Bishop of Winchester, for information about the history of the church in Wessex, and also wrote to the monastery at Lastingham for information about Cedd and Chad.

Bellarmine wrote the preface to the new Sixto-Clementine Vulgate.

In the book's preface, Heisenberg wrote:

She wrote the preface for On War and by 1834 had published several of his books.

That she wrote the Autobiography, and that preface, and the Poems, and the Plague-spot Bacilli, we are not permitted to doubt.

Many dismissed this as a joke ; but, in his preface to the second edition, Butler wrote:

In 1542 he published a prose satire to which Luther wrote the preface, Der Barfusser Monche Eulenspiegel und Alkoran, a parodic adaptation of the Liber conformitatum of the Franciscan Bartolommeo Rinonico of Pisa, in which the Franciscan order is held up to ridicule.

Some years later, he wrote a forcible preface to a translation of the New Testament issued at his command by his private secretary, Hieronymus Emser, as an offset to Luther's version.

Wells also wrote the preface for the first edition of W. N. P. Barbellion's diaries, The Journal of a Disappointed Man, published in 1919.

Coleridge described how he wrote the poem in the preface to his collection of poems, Christabel, Kubla Khan, and the Pains of Sleep, published in 1816:

In an interview, Smith stated that Kurnaz's family has contacted her and that she wrote a short preface for the book that he was writing.

In 1850, in the preface to his Kashubian-Russian dictionary, Florian Ceynowa wrote about the language of Baltic Slavic peoples:

In the preface, Ramułt wrote:

In a footnote to the preface of Blaze, dated 30 January 2007, King wrote of Rage: " Now out of print, and a good thing.

" For his part, MacDonald wrote an admiring preface to Night Shift, and even had his famous character, Travis McGee, reading Cujo in one of the last McGee novels and Pet Sematary in the last McGee novel, The Lonely Silver Rain.

On 2 January 1897 Gladstone wrote to Francis Hirst on being unable to write a preface to a book on liberalism: " I venture on assuring you that I regard the design formed by you and your friends with sincere interest, and in particular wish well to all the efforts you may make on behalf of individual freedom and independence as opposed to what is termed Collectivism ".

On the other hand, Luther wrote of Melanchthon, in the preface to Melanchthon's Commentary on the Galatians ( 1529 ), " I had to fight with rabble and devils, for which reason my books are very warlike.

In the preface to La Comédie Humaine he wrote: " Christianity, and especially Catholicism, being a complete repression of man's depraved tendencies, is the greatest element in Social Order.

" To arrive at the truth ", he wrote in the preface to Le Lys dans la vallée, " writers use whatever literary device seems capable of giving the greatest intensity of life to their characters.

Her lover Jean Paulhan wrote the preface as if the author were unknown to him.

Jean Paulhan, who was the author's lover and the person to whom she wrote Story of O in the form of love letters, wrote the preface, " Happiness in Slavery ".

Interestingly, in the preface, Paulhan goes out of his way to appear as if he does not know who wrote the book.

In the early 1990s, Masson had been engaged to University of Michigan feminist legal scholar Catharine MacKinnon, who wrote the preface to his A Dark Science: Women, Sexuality, and Psychiatry in the Nineteenth Century.

* The preface of Concrete Mathematics includes the following anecdote: " When Knuth taught Concrete Mathematics at Stanford for the first time, he explained the somewhat strange title by saying that it was his attempt to teach a math course that was hard instead of soft.

His attitude toward madrigals was somewhat enigmatic: whereas in the preface to his collection of Canticum canticorum ( Song of Songs ) motets ( 1584 ) he renounced the setting of profane texts, only two years later he was back in print with Book II of his secular madrigals ( some of these being among the finest compositions in the medium ).

In his preface to the English translation of Homo Necans Burkert, who characterised himself on this occasion as " a philologist who starts from ancient Greek texts and attempts to find biological, psychological and sociological explanations for religious phenomena ", expressed some of the principles underlying a book that had seemed somewhat revolutionary to German readers in 1972 in its consistent application of inter-relationships of myth and ritual, the application to texts of the kind of functionalism espoused in Jane Ellen Harrison's Themis and the use of structuralism to elucidate an ethology of Greek religion, its social aspect.

This work began as the preface to a collection of poetry seminal to the Chinese nature poetry movement, but developed somewhat of a life of its own: it describes the event during that year's Spring Purification Festival ; in which, 42 literati including Xie An and Sun Chuo were present at a gathering at the Orchid Pavilion near Shaoxing, Zhejiang, at which they to composed poems, played music, and enjoyed the wine.

The reaction of the Bavarian establishment was somewhat cooler, in part due to the book's preface.

However, all people are influenced and act as influences, and ironically, the book itself may influence its reader, though the preface paradoxically states that no artist, in their work, " desires to prove anything " or has " ethical sympathies ".

But as he remarks in his preface to The Walnut Trees, `` a novel can hardly ever be rewritten '', and `` when this one appears in its final form, the form of the first part will no doubt be radically changed ''.

The word curling first appears in print in 1620 in Perth, in the preface and the verses of a poem by Henry Adamson.

The English physician and philosopher, Sir Thomas Browne, specifically employed the word encyclopaedia for the first time in English as early as 1646 in the preface to the reader to describe his Pseudodoxia Epidemica or Vulgar Errors, a series of refutations of common errors of his age.

As the preface to the 2nd edition ( 1976 ) notes, the first edition ( 1955 ) appears to have received relatively little attention from the literary establishment because of its then-unfashionable Marxist viewpoint.

In the preface to the first edition of his book, Butler specified:

The first paper from his years of study in Paris appeared in Frankfurt am Main in 1816, under the title of Über das Conjugationssystem der Sanskritsprache in Vergleichung mit jenem der griechischen, lateinischen, persischen und germanischen Sprache ( On the Conjugation System of Sanskrit in comparison with that of Greek, Latin, Persian and Germanic ) ( Windischmann contributed a preface ).

The first edition of the book was published, without Kant or Fichte's knowledge, without Fichte's name and signed preface ; it was thus mistakenly thought to be a new work by Kant himself.

In the preface to the 1977 English translation Murray Rothbard called " The Production of Security " the " first presentation anywhere in human history of what is now called anarcho-capitalism " though admitting that " Molinari did not use the terminology, and probably would have balked at the name.

His journal was first published in 1694, after editing by Thomas Ellwood — a friend and associate of John Milton — with a preface by William Penn.

The first definite impulse came from the lectures of Friedrich Karl von Savigny, the celebrated investigator of Roman law, who, as Wilhelm Grimm himself says in the preface to the Deutsche Grammatik ( German Grammar ), first taught him to realize what it meant to study any science.

In 1822 this volume appeared in a second edition ( really a new work, for, as Grimm himself says in the preface, it cost him little reflection to mow down the first crop to the ground ).

As Grimm in the preface to his first edition expressly mentioned this essay of Rask, there is every probability that it inspired his own investigations.

However others, pointing to Marx's encounter with late 19th-century Russian populism and Marx and Engels's preface to the second Russian edition of the Manifesto of the Communist Party ( 1882 ), have argued that Marx evinced a growing conviction in his late writings that revolution could in fact emerge first in Russia.

" Furthermore, the preface indicates that the book was first printed in 1602.

Ockley maintained that a knowledge of Oriental literature was essential to the proper study of theology, and in the preface to his first book, the Introductio ad linguas orientates ( 1706 ), he urges the importance of the study.

The word surrealist was coined by Guillaume Apollinaire and first appeared in the preface to his play Les Mamelles de Tirésias, which was written in 1903 and first performed in 1917.

The preface to his first exhibition in the Furstenberg Gallery ( 1957 ) was written by Breton yet.

As he states in the preface, he saw the book as a preamble to his other philosophical and theological books ; in fact, he suggests that Natural Theology should be read first, so as to build a systematic understanding of his arguments.

His first publications were an edition of Terence ( 1516 ) and his Greek grammar ( 1518 ), but he had written previously the preface to the Epistolae clarorum virorum of Reuchlin ( 1514 ).

In the preface to the first edition of Scènes de la Vie privée, he writes: " The author firmly believes that details alone will henceforth determine the merit of works ….

The Selfish Gene was first published in 1976 in eleven chapters with a preface by the author and a foreword by Robert Trivers.