They added a " second edition preface " endorsement by Lin Biao, dated 16 December 1966 ( which was torn-out following Lin Biao's death and public disgrace in September 1971 ).

A quote from the preface of " The Little Red Book " by Lin Biao ( with his name scratched out ) on the Huayang Palace in Jinan ; photo 2007

Lin himself describes, in his translator's preface to Dicken's The Old Curiosity Shop (), how he worked on his translations:

This text was the purported teachings of Bodhidharma with a preface by T ’ an Lin ( fl.

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.

In his preface, Wilde writes about Caliban, a character from Shakespeare's play The Tempest.

* 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:

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.

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 ''.

Sade critiqued the genre in the preface of his Reflections on the novel ( 1800 ) which is widely accepted today, stating that the Gothic is " the inevitable product of the revolutionary shock with which the whole of Europe resounded ".

Bestselling author Pat Conroy, in his preface to the novel, describes Mitchell's portrayal of the Ku Klux Klan as having " the same romanticized role it had in The Birth of a Nation and appears to be a benign combination of the Elks Club and a men's equestrian society.

Finally, in the beginning of 2006, the novel was published in Egypt with a preface written by Ahmad Kamal Aboul-Magd.

" 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.

A passage from the novel appears as the preface of Ian McEwan's Atonement, thus likening the naive mistakes of Austen's Catherine Morland to those of his own character Briony Tallis, who is in a similar position: both characters have very over-active imaginations, which lead to misconceptions that cause distress in the lives of people around them.

It is a dialogic novel, comprising a preface and conclusion by an editor bookending a first person narrative proper.

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.

in Quantity for the Price of Seven " Richardson later made it up to the public with " deferred Restorations " of the fourth edition of the novel being printed in larger print with eight volumes and a preface that reads: " It is proper to observe with regard to the present Edition that it has been thought fit to restore many Passages, and several Letters which were omitted in the former merely for shortening-sake.

In his preface to the New York Edition text of the novel, James placed this book at the top of his achievements, which has occasioned some critical disagreement.

Zola's theories of heredity, laid out in the original preface to this novel, were a cornerstone of his entire philosophy and a major reason for his embarking on the mammoth Rougon-Macquart project in the first place in order to illustrate them.

Despite these reforms, it was still possible for Charles Dickens, writing in 1852 in the preface to his novel Bleak House, to bemoan the inefficiencies of the Court of Chancery.

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.

In the preface of the novel he notes that the story originally came from a desire on his part to write a detective story where the principal character, the villain, is ignorant of who the detective is.

" In Waugh's preface to the 1959 revised edition of Brideshead the author explains the circumstances in which the novel was written, in the six months between December 1943 and June 1944 following a minor parachute accident.

" The book, which Byrne describes in the preface as a " partial life ," identifies other real-life bases for events and characters in Waugh's novel, though Byrne argues carefully against simple one-to-one correspondences, suggesting instead that Waugh combined people, places and events into composite inventions, subtle transmutations of life into fiction.

The impetus for the novel, as Fielding claims in the preface, is the establishment of a genre of writing " which I do not remember to have been hitherto attempted in our language ", defined as the " comic epic-poem in prose ": a work of prose fiction, epic in length and variety of incident and character, in the hypothetical spirit of Homer ’ s lost ( and possibly apocryphal ) comic poem Margites.

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

According to the preface, the work is a romance and not a historical novel, because the author neither " dares, nor desires, to claim for it the dignity or cumber it with the difficulty of an historical novel.

Although Dumas knew that de Sandras ' version was heavily fictionalised, in the preface to The Three Musketeers he affected to believe that the memoirs were real, in order to make his novel more believable.

He also wrote the novel Quitting Science ( 2004 ) under the pen name Cunliffe Merriwether and wrote the preface under his own name.

The author's preface to the novel, regarded as a manifesto of literary impressionism, is considered one of Conrad's significant pieces of non-fiction writing.

In addition to Journey to the West, Wu wrote numerous poems and stories ( including the novel Yuding Animals, which includes a preface by Wu ), although most have been lost.