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Prefaces to Fiction

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The Augustan Reprint Society

PREFACES TO FICTION

Introduction

Georges de Scudéry, Preface to Ibrahim (1674)

Mary De la Riviere Manley, Preface to The Secret History of Queen Zarah (1705)

Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens, The Jewish Spy (1744), Letter 35

William Warburton, Preface to Volumes III and IV (1748) of Richardson's Clarissa

Samuel Derrick, Preface to d'Argens's Memoirs of The Count Du Beauval (1754)

Publications of the Augustan Reprint Society

With an Introduction by

Benjamin Boyce

Publication Number 32

Los Angeles

William Andrews Clark Memorial Library

University of California

1952

GENERAL EDITORS

H. RICHARD ARCHER, Clark Memorial Library RICHARD C. BOYS, University of Michigan JOHN LOFTIS, University of California, Los Angeles

ASSISTANT EDITOR

W. EARL BRITTON, University of Michigan

ADVISORY EDITORS

EMMETT L. AVERY, State College of Washington BENJAMIN BOYCE, Duke University LOUIS I. BREDVOLD, University of Michigan CLEANTH BROOKS, Yale University JAMES L. CLIFFORD, Columbia University ARTHUR FRIEDMAN, University of Chicago EDWARD NILES HOOKER, University of California, Los Angeles LOUIS A. LANDA, Princeton University SAMUEL H. MONK, University of Minnesota ERNEST MOSSNER, University of Texas JAMES SUTHERLAND, University College, London H.T. SWEDENBERG, JR., University of California, Los Angeles

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