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The innocent reader might thus be led to believe that Caxton's orthography underwent a dramatic revolution between his 1484 preface to The Canterbury Tales, printed here as Caxton wrote it, and the 1490 preface to the Aeneid, which Gray has purged of its fifteenth century look. The plan and, in places, the execution of this work are so good ...
The most outwardly ostentatious sign of upper-classness comes in the form of weekly black-tie dinners; the whole family don formal wear to give Friday nights a sense of occasion.
Prefaces (Danish: Forord) is a book by Søren Kierkegaard published under the pseudonym Nicolaus Notabene. The meaning of the pseudonym used for Prefaces, Nicholaus Notabene, was best summed up in his work Writing Sampler, where Kierkegaard said twice for emphasis, “Please read the following preface, because it contains things of the utmost importance.” [1] He was trying to tell his ...
A preface (/ ˈ p r ɛ f ə s /) or proem (/ ˈ p r oʊ ɛ m /) is an introduction to a book or other literary work written by the work's author. An introductory essay written by a different person is a foreword [contradictory] and precedes an author's preface. The preface often closes with acknowledgments of those who assisted in the literary ...
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Julia Watkin said "Kierkegaard replied to Heiberg in The Fatherland as Victor Eremita, blaming Heiberg for not reading the preface to Either/Or which would have given him the key to the work." [73] Kierkegaard later used his book Prefaces to publicly respond to Heiberg and Hegelianism. [74]
How the Other Half Thinks: Adventures in Mathematical Reasoning (McGraw-Hill, 2001; reprinted as Adventures in Mathematical Reasoning, Dover, 2016) [14] Survival Guide for Outsiders: How to Protect Yourself from Politicians, Experts and Other Insiders (BookSurge, 2010).
In the early morning hours of Dec. 26, 1996, Patsy Ramsey called 911 to report her 6-year-old daughter JonBenét missing, and found a rambling ransom note left inside their Boulder, Colorado, home.