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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.
Prologue: One Perfect Morning, With Jackals—In Kenya, a son argues with his father whether it is possible to adopt European conveniences and customs and still be a true Kikuyu, the dominant native tribe. The father will be the mundumugu (witch doctor) for the new Kikuyu society on a terraformed planetoid named Kirinyaga
The frame story of the poem, as set out in the 858 lines of Middle English which make up the General Prologue, is of a religious pilgrimage. The narrator, Geoffrey Chaucer, is in The Tabard Inn in Southwark, where he meets a group of 'sundry folk' who are all on the way to Canterbury, the site of the shrine of Saint Thomas Becket, a martyr reputed to have the power of healing the sinful.
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.
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).
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 ...
Here's how to read all the 'Outlander' books in order, including the spin-offs and novellas, like the 'Lord John' series.
The first and last books of Diane Duane's Rihannsu series of Star Trek novels pair quotations from Lays of Ancient Rome with imagined epigraphs from Romulan literature. F. Scott Fitzgerald 's The Great Gatsby carries on title page a poem called from its first hemistich "Then Wear the Gold Hat," purportedly signed by Thomas Parke D'Invilliers .