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>Editor's Preface
>Preface
>Foreward
>Forward to the 3rd edition
>Forward to the 20th anniversary edition
>Introduction
>Acknowledgements
>Note on the Text

>> No.10791862

>>10791829
these can be really good sometimes but they're usually best left til after you've read the book.

>> No.10791871
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>Translator's note
>Afterword

>> No.10791880
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>introduction
>has spoilers

>> No.10791883
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I don't understand the differences between foreword, prologue and introduction.

>> No.10791890

>>10791880
>Casually read the Introduction
>"The death of the main character meant that..."
thanks intro to Fathers and Sons

>> No.10793159

>thanks

>> No.10793174

>>10791883
A foreward usually provides some background information, a prologue is part of the narrative than precedes the main story, an introduction usually explains the content of the book which is why introductions to novels always have spoilers.

They're not strictly defined though.

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>>10791829
>not reading the additional content until youve finished the book

>> No.10793283

I once owned an edition of Dorian Gray wh8ch had a 130 page long note to the uncensored version.

>> No.10793358

>>10793205
>finish book
>yeah I'll just read this extra stuff later
>never pick it up again

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>dedicated to author's spouse.

>> No.10793391

>>10791880
EVERY. FUCKING. TIME.

I will never read an introduction again. Completey ruined The Idiot for me.

>> No.10793414

>>10791880
I remember being 13 and reading Sartre's introduction to The Stranger. I got really pissed at him for writing about Meursault getting executed.

>> No.10793415

>>10793391
>>10793414
I like spoilers. It helps me appreciate the foreshadowing, and you only know the general outcome, not the details

>> No.10793461

>>10791890
My edition of Shakespeare has main character death spoilers and similar stuff in the introduction, but those are still plays (and tragedies).
But your example is truly autistic if it's true.

>> No.10793494

>>10793415
>It helps me appreciate the foreshadowing
Well, there's no foreshadowing for a major character's death. Maybe for something like "oh, he was the real perpetrator" mystery, but not a sudden death.
>you only know the general outcome, not the details
Details can be spoiled too.

>> No.10795203

>>10791880
>caring about what happens and not how it happens