The 21st chapter was omitted from the editions published in the United States prior to 1986 .< ref > Burgess, Anthony ( 1986 ) A Clockwork Orange Resucked in < u > A Clockwork Orange </ u >, W. W. Norton & Company, New York .</ ref > In the introduction to the updated American text ( these newer editions include the missing 21st chapter ), Burgess explains that when he first brought the book to an American publisher, he was told that U. S. audiences would never go for the final chapter, in which Alex sees the error of his ways, decides he has lost all energy for and thrill from violence and resolves to turn his life around ( a slow-ripening but classic moment of metanoia — the moment at which one's protagonist realises that everything he thought he knew was wrong ).

Apologie pour l ' histoire ou Métier d ' historien ( 1949 ), translated as The Historian's Craft ( 1953 ) excerpt of 1992 introduction by Peter Burke, and text search

* Morgan, Edmund S. Benjamin Franklin ( 2003 ) the best short introduction excerpt and text search, interpretation by leading scholar

In the 20th century the first part of the prologue ( chapters 1: 1-2: 5 ) and the two parts of the epilogue ( 17-21 ) were commonly seen as miscellaneous collections of fragments tacked on to the main text, and the second part of the prologue ( 2: 6-3: 6 ) as an introduction composed expressly for the book ; this view has been challenged in the latter decades of the century, and there is an increasing willingness to see Judges as the work of a single individual, working by carefully selecting, reworking and positioning his source material to introduce and conclude his themes.

* Early Christian Writings: Apocalypse of John: text, introduction, context

Following the examples of Vitruvius and the five books of the Regole generali d ' architettura by Sebastiano Serlio, published from 1537 onwards, Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola produced an architecture rule book that was more practical than the previous two books, which were more philosophical in nature, his Cinque ordini di erchitettura ( The Five Orders of Architecture ) from 1562 ; the book is considered " one of the most successful architectural textbooks ever written ", despite having no text apart from the notes and the introduction.

Rabbi Chaim Volozhin ( Lithuania 1749 – 1821 ) reports in an introduction to Siphra Dzeniouta ( 1818 ) that he once presented to his teacher, the Vilna Gaon, ten different versions of a certain passage in the Sefer Yetzira and asked the Gaon to determine the correct text.

The complete Italian text is transcribed with an English translation and introduction:

* The Story of My Life with introduction to the text

But before this he had already devoted to the Revelation another treatment, a rather arbitrary recasting of the commentary of Saint Victorinus, with whose chiliastic views he was not in accord, substituting for the chiliastic conclusion a spiritualizing exposition of his own, supplying an introduction, and making certain changes in the text.

The first ever verse translation of the unabridged text of Book Two, with an introduction and explanatory notes.

Apologie pour l ' histoire ou Métier d ' historien ( 1949 ), translated as The Historian's Craft ( 1953 ) excerpt of 1992 introduction by Peter Burke, and text search ; Original French text

* The Commentary of Origen On S. John's Gospel, the text revised and with a critical introduction and indices by A. E. Brooke ( 2 vols., Cambridge University Press, 1896 )

Prior to the introduction of PostScript, printers were designed to print character output given the text — typically in ASCII — as input.

M. Hammond, A. H. Mack, and W. Moskalew have noted in their introduction to the text of the Miles Gloriosus that Plautus was, “ free from convention ... that he sought to reproduce the easy tone of daily speech rather than the formal regularity of oratory or poetry.

* On the Sacred Art ( French introduction and Greek text )

Each play is preceded by an introduction where Bowdler summarises and justifies his changes to the text.

It used the following text as an introduction to the Wilhelmus:

In the introduction to her own translation, Wendy Doniger, professor of the history of religions at the University of Chicago, writes that Burton " managed to get a rough approximation of the text published in English in 1883, nasty bits and all ".

Latin text with introduction and notes in French.

Shortly before its publication, an introduction, glossary and footnotes, written in the voice of an English narrator, were added to the original text to blunt the negative impact the Edgeworths feared the book might have on English enthusiasm for the Act of Union 1800.

Campbell's childhood and adolescence were marked by the rift between his parents and his mother's developing schizophrenia, an experience he has discussed in detail in the introduction and afterword to the restored text of The Face That Must Die.

The earliest labors of the Masoretes included standardizing division of the text into books, sections, paragraphs, verses, and clauses ( probably in the chronological order here enumerated ); the fixing of the orthography, pronunciation, and cantillation ; the introduction or final adoption of the square characters with the five final letters ( comp.

Unlike the descriptions of other Biblical Judges, the first reference to Shamgar has no introduction, conclusion, or reference to the length of reign, and the subsequent text follows on directly from the previous narrative.

As an introduction to the event, he arranged for his private collection of Tito Rodríguez memorabilia to be exhibited in the lobby of the center.

Editio princeps d ' après le manuscrit de Bursa, traduction de l ' arabe, introduction, notes et lexique ( Beirut-Paris: Albouraq, 2000 ) ISBN 2-84161-150-7.

Goethe's translation ( 1805 ) was the first introduction of Le Neveu de Rameau to the European public.

Thomas Aquinas, in the introduction to his commentary on the Psalms, defined the Christian hymn thus: " Hymnus est laus Dei cum cantico ; canticum autem exultatio mentis de aeternis habita, prorumpens in vocem.

The first of these was printed as De l ' Histoire de la poésie ( 1830 ), and was practically the first introduction of the French public to the Scandinavian and German epics.

Since his introduction in 1996, Jaxson de Ville has served as the Jaguars ' mascot.

* Herodotus, The Histories, Newly translated and with an introduction by Aubrey de Sélincourt, Harmondsworth, England, Penguin Books, 1965.

The introduction of a limited form of plea bargaining ( comparution sur reconnaissance préalable de culpabilité or CRPC, often summarized as plaider coupable ) in 2004 was highly controversial in France.

In French, the best introduction may be André Gounelle, Le Dynamisme Créateur de Dieu: Essai sur la Théologie du Process, édition revue, modifiée et augmentee ( Paris: Van Dieren, 2000, ISBN 2-911087-26-7 ).

* Luis Jerónimo de Cabrera, 4th Count of Chinchón and Jesuit's bark, for the story of its introduction into Europe

Nevertheless, in 1637 he published part of this work in three essays: Les Météores ( The Meteors ), La Dioptrique ( Dioptrics ) and La Géométrie ( Geometry ), preceded by an introduction, his famous Discours de la Métode ( Discourse on the Method ).

The most important is the chronicle called Gesta consulum Andegavorum, of which only a poor edition exists ( Chroniques des comtes d ' Anjou, published by Marchegay and Salmon, with an introduction by E. Mabille, Paris, 1856 – 1871, collection of the Société de l ' histoire de France ).

Modèles des Caractères de l ’ Imprimerie, including James Mosley ’ s introduction, Eugrammia Press, London 1965.

The mobile sub-sector has experienced excellent growth rates following the introduction of competition in 2003 between Vodacom Mozambique and mCel, the incumbent mobile subsidiary of the national telco, Telecomunicações de Moçambique ( TDM ).

* 1854 – André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri credited with introduction of the carte de visite ( French " visiting card ").

Velázquez went to Madrid in the first half of April 1622, with letters of introduction to Don Juan de Fonseca, himself from Seville, who was chaplain to the King.

Dantès then moves to Paris, and with Albert de Morcerf's introduction, becomes the sensation of the city.

* Philippe de Commynes: The Reign of Louis XI 1461-83, translated with an introduction by Michael Jones

The region had prospered with the introduction of tobacco growing from America, and the agrarian experiments of Olivier de Serres, father of modern French agriculture.

Many of his films inspired filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson ( There Will Be Blood ), who gave an introduction on the newly restored DVD of The Earrings of Madame de ( 1953 ).

The Minister of Economic Affairs Leo de Block resigned, officially as a protest against the wage rise in the metal industry, but another reason was his slow reaction to the inflation and rising prices after the introduction of Value added tax.

* The introduction of PL / I resulting in COBOL and FORTRAN becoming the de facto standards for scientific and business programming

* The introduction of Algol-68 resulting in Pascal becoming the de facto standard for academic programming

* The introduction of the Ada language resulting in C becoming the de facto standard for DoD programming