The supposed publisher of the fake book described in the story was an actual publisher, Victor Gollancz, as was the supposed writer of the preface, Dorothy L. Sayers.

Staying on in Accra, Dorothy Pizer wrote a preface for a French edition of Pan-Africanism or Communism and began research for a biography of Padmore, although, as she told Nancy Cunard, she was frustrated by his habit of destroying his personal papers and not talking about his past.

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz was a children ’ s book, of course, but as Baum warned in the preface, it was a " modernized " fairy tale as well.

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 ''.

Janet Hitchman, in the preface to " Striding Folly ", remarks that " Wimsey may have been the sad ghost of a wartime lover (...).

The text is divided into two parts, consisting of what Wittgenstein calls, in the preface, Bemerkungen, translated by Anscombe as " remarks ".

By Dr. Alice Drysdale Vickery ( with preface and remarks ) ( Letchworth: Garden City Press, 1912 ).

Gluck ( whose remarks on the function of overtures in the preface to Alceste are historic ) based himself on Italian models, of loose texture.

In Book V, after an interesting preface concerning regular polygons, and containing remarks upon the hexagonal form of the cells of honeycombs, Pappus addresses himself to the comparison of the areas of different plane figures which have all the same perimeter ( following Zenodorus's treatise on this subject ), and of the volumes of different solid figures which have all the same superficial area, and, lastly, a comparison of the five regular solids of Plato.

Dr Edleston, in his preface to Newton's correspondence with Cotes, justly remarks: " If Flamsteed the Astronomer-Royal had cordially co-operated with him in the humble capacity of an observer in the way that Newton pointed out and requested Of him ... the lunar theory would, if its creator did not overrate his own powers, have been completely investigated, so far as he could do it, in the first few months of 1695, and a second edition of the Principia would probably have followed the execution of the task at no long interval.

Otto Jahn the first great Mozart scholar apparently viewed this copy early in the 1860's, as he directs remarks about it in the preface to his 1862 edition on Mozart.

Ludlow highlights this in his concluding preface remarks:

In the preface to the 1800 Lyrical Ballads, Wordsworth remarks that the purpose of this poem, as of The Mad Mother, is to trace " the maternal passion through many of its more subtle windings.

In his preface to both the British and American editions of the book, Vernon Sproxton remarks that he has seen Anna's drawings and notes and that he believes her to be real.

As he remarks in the book's preface, the original assignment was to produce a " photographic and verbal record of the daily living and environment of an average white family of tenant farmers.

Alfred lamented in the preface to his translation of Gregory's Pastoral Care that " learning had declined so thoroughly in England that there were very few men on this side of the Humber who could understand their divine services in English, or even translate a single letter from Latin into English: and I suppose that there were not many beyond the Humber either ".

The preface makes it clear that Ceolwulf had requested the earlier copy, and Bede had asked for Ceolwulf's approval ; this correspondence with the king indicates that Bede's monastery had excellent connections among the Northumbrian nobility.

She wrote the preface for On War and by 1834 had published several of his books.

He stated in the preface that he had compiled 20, 000 facts from 2000 works by over 200 authors, and added many others from his own experience.

Pliny makes clear the fact in the preface to his work that he had checked his facts by reading and comparing the works of others, as well as referring to them by name.

The Spanish manuscript also contains a preface by one assuming the pseudonym ' Fra Marino ', claiming to have stolen a copy of the Italian version from the library of Pope Sixtus V. Fra Marino reports that, having a post in the Inquisition Court, he had come into possession of several works, which led him to believe that the Biblical text had been corrupted, and that genuine apostolic texts had been improperly excluded.

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.

In his preface to the 1941 edition of The War in the Air, Wells had stated that his epitaph should be: " I told you so.

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.

This claim was made by Jiao Yu in his Huolongjing Quanzhi ( Fire-drake Manual in One Complete Volume ), his preface written in 1412 AD ( although the book was originally published in the mid 14th century ), and that Zhuge had used not only " fire weapons " but land mines in the Battle of Hulugu Valley against the forces of Sima Yi and his son Sima Zhao of the Wei Kingdom.

In his preface to the Prophecies, Nostradamus himself stated that his prophecies extend ' from now to the year 3797 '— an extraordinary date which, given that the preface was written in 1555, may have more than a little to do with the fact that 2242 ( 3797-1555 ) had recently been proposed by his major astrological source Richard Roussat as a possible date for the end of the world.

" According to the preface the author had been " many years since deceased " and was " highly preferred in the Church of Rome.

" 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.

Lewis's diverse sources for this work include the works of St. Augustine, Dante Aligheri, John Milton, John Bunyan, Emanuel Swedenborg and Lewis Carroll as well as the American science-fiction author whom Lewis mentions in his preface whose name he had forgotten.

The second edition, published in 1800, had only Wordsworth listed as the author, and included a preface to the poems, which was augmented significantly in the 1802 edition.

His first publications were an edition of Terence ( 1516 ) and his Greek grammar ( 1518 ), but he had written previously the preface to the Epistolae clarorum virorum of Reuchlin ( 1514 ).

On the other hand, Luther wrote of Melanchthon, in the preface to Melanchthon's Commentary on the Galatians ( 1529 ), " I had to fight with rabble and devils, for which reason my books are very warlike.

In the preface to the second part of Volume I of his New System, he says he had so often been misled by taking for granted the results of others that he determined to write " as little as possible but what I can attest by my own experience ", but this independence he carried so far that it sometimes resembled lack of receptivity.

Six years later, in October 1769, Lavater sent Mendelssohn his German translation of Charles Bonnet's essay on Christian Evidences, with a preface where he publicly challenged Mendelssohn to refute Bonnet or if he could not then to " do what wisdom, the love of truth and honesty must bid him, what a Socrates would have done if he had read the book and found it unanswerable ".

Korzybski wrote in the preface to the third edition of Science and Sanity ( 1947 ) that general semantics " turned out to be an empirical natural science.

In the latter half of the decade, Dekker turned once more to pamphlet-writing, revamping old work and writing a new preface to his most popular tract, The Bellman of London.

In his preface to this book, Thompson set out his approach to writing history from below:

According to the preface the purpose of Luke is to write a historical account, while bringing out the theological significance of the history.

In a footnote to the preface of Blaze, dated 30 January 2007, King wrote of Rage: " Now out of print, and a good thing.

The preface explains that the original concept of a general system theory was " Allgemeine Systemtheorie ( or Lehre )", pointing out the fact that " Theorie " ( or " Lehre ") just as " Wissenschaft " ( translated Scholarship ), " has a much broader meaning in German than the closest English words ‘ theory ’ and ‘ science '".

But whereas Newton vehemently denied gravity was an inherent power of matter, his collaborator Roger Cotes made gravity also an inherent power of matter, as set out in his famous preface to the Principia's 1713 second edition which he edited, and contra Newton himself.

Interestingly, in the preface, Paulhan goes out of his way to appear as if he does not know who wrote the book.

In 2010, the company HarperCollins brought out a special 50th anniversary issue of the book, containing a new preface by Garner and praise from various other figures involved in children's literature, while 2011 saw BBC Radio 4 produce a radio adaptation.

Calzabigi wrote a preface to Alceste, which Gluck signed, setting out the principles of their reforms.

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

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.

Sayers points out in the preface that all the places in the story are real places, and it is a fact that almost all the locations can be recognized and visited to this day.

*" How To Live on Christ " a pamphlet by Harriet Beecher Stowe, taken from her Introduction to Chistopher Dean's " Religion As It Should Be or The Remarkable Experience and Triumphant Death of Ann Thane Peck " published in 1847 Hudson Taylor sent a pamphlet using the words of this preface out to all the missionaries of the China Inland Mission in 1869.

Owen Jones, architect and Orientalist was requested to set out key principles of design and these became not only the basis of the schools teaching but also the propositions which preface The Grammar of Ornament 1856, which is still regarded as the finest systematic study or practical sourcebook of historic world ornament.

However the operas of Christoph Willibald Gluck, represented a specifically neo-classical approach, spelt out in his preface to the published score of Alceste ( 1769 ), which aimed to reform opera by removing ornamentation, increasing the role of the chorus in line with Greek tragedy, and using simpler unadorned melodic lines.

Each remedy was tested thoroughly, the preface stated: “ Of the accuracy of the analytical data there can be no question ; the investigation has been carried out with great care by a skilled analytical chemist .” The book did lead to the end of some of the quack cures, but some survived the book by several decades.

The way to these studies had been pointed out in the preface to Kugler's Handbook of Italian Painting by Sir Charles Eastlake, who had intended pursuing the subject himself.

These were massively successful, earning him a total of £ in terms, and led to the publication of An Analysis of the Laws of England in 1756, which repeatedly sold out and was used to preface his later works.

The lecture was tremendously popular, being described as a " sensible, spirited and manly exhortation to the study of the law "; the initial print run sold out, necessitating the publication of another 1, 000 copies, and it was used to preface later versions of the Analysis and the first volume of the Commentaries.

Then, after a performance where Kean went out of his way to botch the opening night of " Switzerland " by historical novelist Jane Porter in February 1819, for whom Kean had had a personal dislike, Bucke pulled the play out of contempt for Kean's conduct .. After much cajoling to still perform the play by the theatre staff, Mr. Bucke then later had it republished with a preface concerning the incident, including excerpts from correspondences between the involved parties, which was later challenged in two books, The Assailant Assailed and A Defense of Edmund Kean, Esq.

Waley noted in his preface: " The method adopted in these abridgements is to leave the original number of separate episodes, but drastically reduce them in length, particularly by cutting out dialogue.

Justin received the pope's letters with great respect, and told the ambassadors to come to an explanation with the patriarch, who at first wished to express his adherence in the form of a letter, but agreed to write a little preface and place after it the words of Hormisdas, which he copied out in his own handwriting.

When Calzabigi published Alceste, he added a preface signed by Gluck, which set out their ideals for operatic reform.

In a footnote to the preface of Blaze ( dated 30 January 2007 ) King wrote of Rage: " Now out of print, and a good thing.