Next came Crowley's three editions of Piers Plowman in 1550, as well as an edition of the prologue to John Wycliffe's translation of the Bible, which was written by John Purvey and wrongly attributed to Wycliff by Crowley on John Bale's authority.

According to the prologue of the Latin translation, Picatrix was translated into Spanish from the Arabic by order of Alphonso X of Castile at some time between 1256 and 1258.

The author opens with a prologue, usually taken to be addressed to an individual by the name of Theophilus ( though this name, which translates literally as " God-lover ", may be a nickname rather than a personal appellation ) and references " my earlier book "— almost certainly the Gospel of Luke.

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.

Himanen explained these ideas in a book, The Hacker Ethic and the Spirit of the Information Age, with a prologue contributed by Linus Torvalds and an epilogue by Manuel Castells.

The book must begin ( not including prologue which was set end of previous year ) in January 1986.

Winter's Heart was the first Wheel of Time book for which the prologue, entitled " Snow ", was first sold as an ebook in advance of the physical release of the book.

It contains twenty-three books ; the final book, which deals with the events of 1183 and the beginning of 1184, has only a prologue and one chapter, so it is either unfinished or the rest of the pages were lost before the whole chronicle began to be copied.

In the prologue to the second book of the Commentaries is found one of the best examples of a Mappae Mundi of the high medieval culture.

Other dwarves appear in passing in two scenes of The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring movie: the " prologue " introduces the seven dwarf-lords that received the Rings of Power, and four more are present at the Council of Elrond ( in contrast to the book, where only Gimli and his father Glóin are described ).

In the prologue of the book The Hacker Ethic and the Spirit of the Information Age ( 2001 ) Torvalds introduces his " Linus's Law ", which is that every motivation that makes a man do something can be classified under " survival ", " social life " and " entertainment.

He confesses his own naïveté in the verse prologue to the book:

In his prologue to the latest edition of this book, John Kersey refers to the Eucharist proposed by Leadbeater as " a radical reinterpretation of the context of the Eucharist seen within a theological standpoint of esoteric magic and universal salvation ; it is Catholicism expressing the love of God to the full without the burdens of needless guilt and fear, and the false totem of the temporal powers of the church.

The book comprises a prologue, Gurdjieff's description of five of his lectures ( delivered on five nights starting November 28 and ending December 19, 1930 ) and a final essay entitled " The Outer and Inner World of Man ".

After host Frank Skinner read a line from the novel Qs prologue (" The coin of the kingdom of the mad dangles on my chest to remind me of the eternal oscillation of human fortunes "), Blissett produced a copy of Luther Blissett's Italian book Totò, Peppino e la guerra psichica (" Toto, Peppino and the Psychic War ", AAA Edizioni, 1996 ) and quoted extensively from it, in the original Italian:

According to his own statement ( prologue to book III ), he was born on the Pierian Mountain in Macedonia, but he seems to have been brought to Italy at an early age, since he mentions reading a verse of Ennius as a boy in school.

We learn this from the prologue to the third book, which is dedicated to Eutychus, who has been identified with the famous charioteer and favorite of Gaius.

Rickmansworth is a place in England where, according to the prologue to the first novel, a young woman sitting on her own in a small cafe ( later identified as Fenchurch in the fourth book ) realized how the Earth could be made a good and happy place.

Each book consists of about 4, 000 verses and contains its own prose introduction and prologue.

Ilyena is only mentioned in the prologue of the first book in the series, The Eye of the World, and during the ravings Lews Therin has after he makes his presence known in Rand's head.

The book consists of a prologue and ten chapters ( Gregorian calendar year ):

In the prologue, the narrator ( not Lázaro himself but someone who claims to have a copy of Lázaro's writings ) tells the reader that he was moved to publish the second part of Lázaro's adventures after hearing about a book which, he alleges, had falsely told of Lázaro being transformed into a tuna ( obviously a disparaging reference to Lazarillo de Amberes ).

* Portions of the book are available online for free ( or the entirety, for pay ) through Baen's WebScription service including the prologue which was cut from the original publication.

In the prologue, Marie writes that she was inspired by the example of the ancient Greeks and Romans to create something that would be both entertaining and morally instructive.

* a passage in which Mordecai interprets his dream ( from the prologue ) in terms of the events that followed

The speeches of Elihu ( who is not mentioned in the prologue ) are claimed to contradict the fundamental opinions expressed by the " friendly accusers " in the central body of the poem, according to which it is impossible that the righteous should suffer, all pain being a punishment for some sin.

It is set in the land of Edom, which has been retained as the background, and in the prologue and epilogue, the name of God is YHWH, a name that even the Edomites used.

In 1971, SLON made Le Train en marche, a new prologue to Soviet filmmaker Aleksandr Medvedkin's 1935 film Schastye, which had recently been re-released in France.

The specific type of monologue ( or soliloquy ) in which a Plautine slave engages is the prologue.

Under its referencing system, which uses Roman numerals, II. ii. 33 means act 2, scene 2, line 33, and a 0 in place of a scene number refers to the prologue to the act.

To highlight his evil and villainous rise to power, Ui is compared to Shakespeare's Richard III and Macbeth in both the introductory prologue and in scene 14 when he experiences similar visitations from the ghosts of his victims as Richard and Macbeth do ; while Hitler's own learned prowess at public speaking is referenced by Ui receiving lessons from an actor which include him reciting Mark Antony's famous speech from Julius Caesar.

a prologue to one of his plays, Terence meets the charge of receiving assistance in the composition of his plays by claiming as a great honour the favour which he enjoyed with those who were the favorites of the Roman people.

More important, however, was the prologue, which comprised sung dialogue between allegorical characters which introduced the overarching themes of the stories depicted.

However, in the serialised publication of Dance of the Gull-Catchers Moore included an " author's statement " which consisted of a blown-up panel from the prologue, depicting the psychic Robert James Lees confessing that although his visions were fraudulent, they were accurate: " I made it all up, and it all came true anyway.

But the pantomime that had the greatest appeal to his public was the " pantomime-arlequinade-féerie ", sometimes " in the English style " ( i. e., with a prologue in which characters were transformed into the Commedia types ).

In the England of the Aesthetic Movement, Aubrey Beardsley's drawings attested profound kinship with the figure ; Olive Custance ( who would marry Oscar Wilde's lover, Lord Alfred Douglas ) published the poem " Pierrot " in 1897 ; and Ernest Dowson wrote the verse-play Pierrot of the Minute ( 1897, illustrated by Beardsley ), to which the composer Sir Granville Bantock would later contribute an orchestral prologue ( 1908 ).

Lucas first introduced the Holy Grail in an idea for the film's prologue, which was to be set in Scotland.

It included the prologue that was eventually filmed ; Lucas had to convince Spielberg to show Indiana as a boy because of the mixed response to Empire of the Sun, which was about a young boy.

The prologue depicting Indiana in his youth inspired Lucas to create The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles television show, which featured Sean Patrick Flanery as the young adult Indiana and Corey Carrier as the 8 – 10 year-old Indiana.

German author Wolfgang Hohlbein revisited the 1912 prologue in one of his novels, in which Indiana encounters the lead grave robber — whom Hohlbein christens Jake — in 1943.

Warcraft III < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s campaign mode is broken up into five campaigns ( Including an optional prologue ), each featuring a different race which the player controls ( 2 Orc campaigns, 1 Human, 1 Undead, and 1 Night Elf ).