The novel included a foreword by Havelock Ellis and was intended to be a call for tolerance for inverts by publicizing their disadvantages and accidents of being born inverted.

In the foreword by King included with Desperation he said that there may be another Bachman novel left to be " found.

For the 1753 revision, the best are by L. W. Tancock ( Penguin, 1949 — though he divides the 2-part novel into a number of chapters ), Donald M. Frame ( Signet, 1961 — which notes differences between the 1731 and 1753 editions ), Angela Scholar ( Oxford, 2004, with extensive notes and commentary ), and Andrew Brown ( Hesperus, 2004, with a foreword by Germaine Greer ).

In a foreword to a subsequent edition of No Bed for Bacon ( which traded on the association by declaring itself " A Story of Shakespeare and Lady Viola in Love ") Ned Sherrin, Private Eye insider and former writing partner of Brahms ', confirmed that he had lent a copy of the novel to Stoppard after he joined the writing team, but that the basic plot of the film had been independently developed by Marc Norman, who was unaware of the earlier work.

Some editions include as a foreword a letter written by Sayers " To my friend Joe Dignam, the kindliest of landlords ," from which it becomes evident that she herself was in the habit of having holidays in Galloway-a habit attributed to Wimsey in the book-and that on one of them she promised her landlord to write a detective novel set in this area, of which the book was a fulfilment.

Chapter One was first published as a whole in a booklet on February 16, 1825, with a foreword that suggests Pushkin had no clear plan on how ( or even whether ) he would continue the novel.

The novel also contains a foreword by the author, in which the Author warns the reader that the novel has only four suspects and the deduction must be purely psychological.

This rumor is referred to as fact by Forester in a foreword to a later edition of the novel.

In a 1961 foreword to the novel, Henry D. Aiken states that the U. S. president of the novel " bears some resemblance to Andrew Johnson, to Garfield, and to Grant ".

In the foreword, Brittain describes how she originally intended to write of her experiences as a novel but was unable to achieve the objective distance from her subject necessary.

In July 2006, Graham Coxon wrote and had published a foreword for a new edition of Herman Hesse's novel, Narcissus and Goldmund.

The novel includes a foreword in which the author writes: " Hector Adair is intended to represent the ideal Mounted Police officer in particular and the British officer generally.

At this time she also became engaged in a long disagreement with H G Wells over the foreword of Gissing's posthumously published novel Veranilda.

As Endō writes in the foreword, one of the characters has a connection with Otsu, a character in the novel Deep River.

Niven took the name Tree-of-Life from the Book of Genesis ; specifically to the fruit of the " Tree of Life " that could make Adam and Eve immortal ( Genesis 3: 22-24 ), which is quoted as the foreword to the novel Protector, and also mentioned by Brennan within the novel.

In his foreword to the 1952 reprint, O ' Hara says that the working title for the novel was The Infernal Grove.

* Die Lebensuhr des Gottlieb Grambauer ( historic novel: „ Ein Jahrhundert preußisch-deutscher Geschichte von einem fernen Dorfwinkel aus beobachtet " ( according to the foreword ), 1938 )

The origins of the accent are described in A. J. Liebling's book, The Earl of Louisiana, in a passage that was used as a foreword to John Kennedy Toole's well-known posthumously published novel about New Orleans, A Confederacy of Dunces:

Albert Camus's novel The Fall begins with an excerpt from Lermontov's foreword to A Hero of Our Time: " Some were dreadfully insulted, and quite seriously, to have held up as a model such an immoral character as A Hero of Our Time ; others shrewdly noticed that the author had portrayed himself and his acquaintances … A Hero of Our Time, gentlemen, is in fact a portrait, but not of an individual ; it is the aggregate of the vices of our whole generation in their fullest expression.

Schell contributed a foreword to the Space: 1999 novel, " Born for Adversity ", written by David McIntee.

The novel was later republished with a foreword by Maugham entitled A Fragment of Autobiography.

Isaac Asimov, in his foreword to the Signet Classics 1984 edition, described Flatland as " The best introduction one can find into the manner of perceiving dimensions.

According to the foreword in Robot Visions, Asimov was approached to write a story titled " Bicentennial Man " for a science fiction collection, along with a number of other authors who would do the same, in honor of the bicentennial of the United States.

Since 1972, reprints have included a foreword by Asimov explaining that advancing knowledge of conditions on Mercury have rendered some of the novel's descriptions of that world inaccurate.

Since 1972, reprints have included a foreword by Asimov explaining that advancing knowledge of conditions on Venus have rendered the novel's descriptions of that world inaccurate.

The philosophy upon which A Guide to Jewish Religious Practice is written is stated in the foreword: " The premise on which Torah is based is that all aspects of life-leisure no less than business, worship or rites of passage ( birth, bar mitzvah, marriage, divorce, death )-are part of the covenant and mandate under which every Jew is to serve God in everything he does.

The foreword stated that they wanted " less of a carnival, more like a checklist.

In his foreword to Gold's book The Deep Hot Biosphere, theoretical physicist Freeman Dyson stated, " Gold's theories are always original, always important, usually controversial – and usually right.

Kevin Costner trained extensively with Gary McCord to learn how to play golf, as stated in the foreword Costner wrote for McCord's book, Golf For Dummies.

However, there is no way of knowing what that date is, which in some way provides some potency to the story within, as it is stated in the foreword that " the contents of the book are extracts of a ' spaceperson's diary ' and are duplicated within ", and " that the dates published within are of no meaning ".

In the foreword to the consultation document, Deputy First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon stated " The Scottish Government is choosing to make its initial views clear at the outset of this consultation.

In his foreword to Colin Bell's autobiography, Bobby Charlton has stated that ' Colin Bell was unquestionably a great player '.

This is stated by Uhl himself in a foreword to some, but not all editions.

Brooks wrote the book's foreword and has stated how he was always fond of her cooking style.

Yearwood stated that she dedicated many of the cookbook's recipes to relatives, such as husband Garth Brooks, who also provided the foreword for the book.

His goal, as stated in the foreword of the edition, was to provide more reliable editions.

His Lordship in the foreword stated: " To write a book on administrative law as enforced in India is a very elaborate task but this has been performed by the author with great insight, industry and understanding.

In the foreword, he stated ; " I can safely say that the present work on Code of Civil Procedure leaves nothing unexplained, which ought to have been explained.

As is stated in the foreword, the encyclopedia is " based on rationalist and materialist assumptions " and reflects the worldview of the " socialist ideology ".

The foreword to the Code of Practice stated:

Created by Doctor Who producer Barry Letts and script editor Terrance Dicks as a realistic alternative strand of TV science-fiction, it was not a commercial or critical success ( Dicks himself has stated in a foreword to a collection of Tom Baker-era Doctor Who scripts that they " overdid the grimness and forgot about the sense of wonder that science fiction is all about ").

As stated in the book's foreword, all the information and scenarios depicted were taken from interviews with 394 people who were involved.

King stated in the foreword for this short story, that he had gotten the idea for it after dreaming about a person pouring change into the storm drain.