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A prologue or prolog (from Greek πρόλογος prólogos, from πρό pró, "before" and λόγος lógos, "word") is an opening to a story that establishes the context and gives background details, often some earlier story that ties into the main one, and other miscellaneous information.
Extract from the preface, with the passage which gave it its nickname underlined in red, in the Patrologia Latina, v.28. The Prologus Galaetus or Galeatum principium (lit. and traditionally translated as "helmeted prologue"; [1] or sometimes translated as "helmeted preface" [2] [3]) is a preface by Jerome, dated 391–392, to his translation of the Liber Regum (the book of Kings composed of ...
A long prologue was to establish what had happened in the meantime, initially just as one chapter of Aeron Damphair on the Iron Islands at the Kingsmoot. Since the events on the Iron Islands were to have an impact in the book and could not be told with existing POV characters, Martin eventually introduced three new viewpoints. [44]
The Orators is divided into three main sections, framed by "Prologue" and "Epilogue" (each a short poem). Part I is " The Initiates " and comprises four speeches in dramatic prose. Part II is " Journal of an Airman ", in prose with interpolated verses, in the form of a diary of an airman (or of someone who fantasizes himself to be an airman).
The question of whether The Canterbury Tales is a finished work has not been answered to date. There are 84 manuscripts and four incunabula (printed before 1500) editions [4] of the work, which is more than for any other vernacular English literary text with the exception of Prick of Conscience.
Demian: The Story of a Boyhood is a bildungsroman by Hermann Hesse, first published in 1919; a prologue was added in 1960. Demian was first published under the pseudonym "Emil Sinclair", the name of the narrator of the story, but Hesse was later revealed to be the author; the tenth edition was the first to bear his name.
Here's how to read all the 'Outlander' books in order, including the spin-offs and novellas, like the 'Lord John' series.
I of the Vortex: From Neurons to Self is a popular science book by the Colombian neuroscientist Rodolfo Llinás, published in February 2002 by MIT Press. [1] and whose Spanish edition features a prologue by his friend, Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez.