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• Its preface features a history of the novel and Sade’s theories on the ‘modern novel‘: Reflections on the Novel by Sade: first English translation? « Jahsonic
• History as necromancy is avowed in the Preface to Life of Notes on 'Attached to Reading: Mary Shelley's Psychical Reality'
• Every step which led him to the summit of power was prefaced by what he called seeking the Lord; that is, attending sermons and prayers, by which the suborned performers of those profane and solemn farces prepared their congregations to desire what their employers had previously determined to do; thus giving an air of divine inspiration to the projects of fraud, murder, and ambition. The Loyalists, Vol. 1-3 An Historical Novel
• I am criticised for the expression tinker up in the preface. The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 3
• These terms are made coextensive with the temporal span of Maisie's childhood; as the preface puts it, ‘she wonders… to the end-the death of her childhood’.
• A short documentary prefaced the feature movie.
• In his preface, the author says that he took eight years to write the book.
• He has written a fine preface to the play.
• Five weeks of club games and disrupted training sessions prefaced their match against Limerick.
• The misconceived refusal to give Charlie Adam a penalty and send off Philippe Senderos on the hour, a spoilsport decision to disallow a goal for Luis Suárez midway through the second half and a red card for the young midfielder Jay Spearing a few minutes later prefaced a crescendo of Fulham attacking which ended with a dreadful Pepe Reina error and a decisive tap-in for Clint Dempsey. Andy Carroll's ineffectiveness adds to Liverpool frustration at Fulham | Richard Williams