Shortly before writing the preface, Wilde reviewed Herbert A. Giles's translation of the writings of Chuang Tsu.

Oscar Wilde refers to Caliban in the preface of his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray.

In the preface to his Getica, Jordanes writes that he is interrupting his work on the Romana at the behest of a brother Castalius, who apparently knew that Jordanes had had the twelve volumes of the History of the Goths by Cassiodorus at home.

* December 31 – Tycho writes his preface to the Emperor Rudolf II in his book, Mecanica.

Regarding article 1 of the preface of Dei Verbum, Joseph Ratzinger writes, " The brief form of the Preface and the barely concealed illogicalities that it contains betray clearly the confusion from which it has emerged.

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 ….

In the preface to the work, Saxo writes that his patron Absalon, Archbishop of Lund had encouraged him to write a heroic history of the Danes.

In the preface to the third book, Thorndike writes that the list contained therein “ tells anyone who wishes to know whether to use a word in writing, speaking, or teaching how common the word is in standard English reading matter ” ( p. x ), and he further advises that the list can best be employed by teachers if they allow it to guide the decisions they make choosing which words to emphasize during reading instruction.

As Sadie writes in the preface, " The biggest single expansion in the present edition has been in the coverage of 20th-century composers ".

In the preface of the book, Tax Progressivity and Income Inequality, Professor of Economics Joel Slemrod writes,

In the preface to his book The World As Will And Idea, Schopenhauer writes that one who " has also received and assimilated the sacred primitive Indian wisdom, then he is the best of all prepared to hear what I have to say to him ".

In the preface to the English edition, Zygmund writes:

As Hamelin writes in his preface to this étude, the idea to combine these came from the composer Alistair Hinton, the finale of whose Piano Sonata No. 5 ( 1994 – 95 ) includes a substantial section entitled " Alkanique ".

As she writes in the preface to her book, The Managed Heart: The Commercialization of Human Feeling,

* 1998 Translator: Mark Harman who also writes a preface.

As he writes in the preface to Testimony, Volkov's interviews with Shostakovich consisted of questions to which the composer provided " brief " and " reluctant " answers, and which Volkov compiled in a " mound of shorthand notes.

In his preface to The Secret History of the Mongols, he writes that he was not a master of many languages, but claims to have known Chinese and Japanese fairly well, a good deal of Ainu and Mongolian, and some Hebrew and Syriac.

In the preface, he writes:

Larkin writes in the short preface that the selection is wide rather than deep ; and also notes that for the post-1914 period it is more a collection of poems, than of poets.

Gersch writes in the preface to his book:

In the preface to the biography of Wolff Claus Sybill writes that he could be described as a classic case study for the Nazi representative of the upper bourgeoisie: " Wolff himself is and remains (...)

In his preface to the Heimskringla ( which includes the Ynglinga saga ), Snorri writes:

In the preface, Lin writes that " novel is merely a story of ... how certain habits of living and ways of thinking are formed and how, above all, and women adjust themselves to the circumstances in this earthly life where men strive but gods rule.

She writes in her preface that her writing will appeal to many who are attracted by the charm of style.

In the preface, Dick Gregory ( whose autobiography was entitled Nigger ) writes: " In abolishing and eliminating the Caucasian-Christian philosophical and literary forms while recording his black experiences, this writer has removed himself from their double-standard frames of reference.

With these scenes restored in the revised and expanded edition of 2012, however, the novel ’ s meaning to Armenians is all the more poignant, as Vartan Gregorian writes in the preface, " The Forty Days of Musa Dagh was meant as a memorial set against a new historical phenomenon that had been described as " the murder of a nation ," " the extermination of a race ," and " the assassination of Armenia ..." The novel, in its expanded form, has even more relevance as a document of genocide.

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.

In the preface to the law code, he states, " Anu and Bel called by name me, Hammurabi, the exalted prince, who feared Marduk, the chief god of Babylon ( The Human Record, Andrea & Overfield 2005 ), to bring about the rule in the land.

Both prefaces were addressed to Theophilus, and the preface of Acts explicitly references " my former book " about the life of Jesus.

The poem's self-proclaimed fragmentary nature combined with Coleridge's warning about the poem in the preface turns Kubla Khan into an " anti-poem ", a work that lacks structure, order, and leaves the reader confused instead of enlightened.

Kahane claimed in the book's preface that one of his cellmates was a Bedouin from the Negev about to be released after serving an eighteen-year prison sentence for the rape and murder of a Jewish girl.

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

Much of the biographical information about Plotinus comes from Porphyry's preface to his edition of Plotinus ' Enneads.

In the preface to Book 5, Socrates defends dealing with Arianism and with political events in addition to writing about the church.

The new edition added a second preface, a chapter about his life up to 1846, a chapter concerning the post-war period ( ending with his 1884 retirement from the army ), several appendices, portraits, improved maps, and an index ( 1886 edition:

Most critics focus on the preface of the novel, which preached about Art for art's sake through its dictum that " everything useful is ugly.

At his request, his memoirs about Prince Charles ( which he wrote at Churchill's suggestion ) were only published after de Staercke's death in 2003, with the help of and a preface by Belgian historian Jean Stengers.

Henry James discusses his concerns about " the romantic privilege of the ' first person '" in his preface to The Ambassadors, calling it " the darkest abyss of romance.

She learns later — in Book 83, December 29, 1878 — from her father ( but does not apparently accept his statement, as she ignores it here in her preface ) that she was a full-term baby, suggesting that she was conceived before her parents had married and that all the mystification about her date of birth was intended to cover up that embarrassment.

This probably indicates, as the preface to the Gesta suggests, that conflicting oral legends about Hereward were already current in the Fenland in the late eleventh and early twelfth centuries.

In this edition both Herman's above-mentioned translations of treatises about Islam appeared together with a preface by Martin Luther.

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Among Hyginus ' sources are the scholia on Apollonius of Rhodes ' Argonautica, which were dated to about the time of Tiberius by Apollonius ' editor R. Merkel, in the preface to his edition of Apollonius ( Leipzig, 1854 ).

Although there remains doubt about whether the 1552 " edition " in Naples was ever truly printed, the study of Joseph Dan professor of Kabbalah at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in the preface to his 1986 critical edition of the 1625 text concludes, from the Hebrew used and other indications, that the work was in fact written in Naples in the early sixteenth century.

She also received much firsthand information about Dutch life from her immigrant Dutch neighbors, the Scharffs, and Dodge noted in her preface to the 1875 edition of the book that the story of Hans Brinker's father was " founded strictly upon fact ".

In 1650, Lilly wrote a preface to Sir Christopher Heydon's An Astrological Discourse with Mathematical Demonstrations, a defence of astrology written about 1608 which was first published posthumously, largely at the expense of Elias Ashmole.

Roth wrote in the preface to the book's 30th anniversary edition, " With clarity and with crudeness, and a great deal of exuberance, the embryonic writer who was me wrote these stories in his early 20's, while he was a graduate student at the University of Chicago, a soldier stationed in New Jersey and Washington, and a novice English instructor back at Chicago following his Army discharge ... In the beginning it simply amazed him that any truly literate audience could seriously be interested in his store of tribal secrets, in what he knew, as a child of his neighborhood, about the rites and taboos of his clan — about their aversions, their aspirations, their fears of deviance and defection, their underlying embarrassments and their ideas of success.

As a postmodern, metafictional novel, the first chapter of Slaughterhouse-Five is an author's preface about how he came to write Slaughterhouse-Five, apologizing, because the novel is " so short and jumbled and jangled ," because " there is nothing intelligent to say about a massacre.