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>Chronology
>Introduction
>Second Introduction
>Introduction to the Translation
>Translators Note

>> No.21907299

>>21907282
You’re supposed to skip all of that on a first reading.

>> No.21907302

>>21907299
If you enjoy flying blind without context for an important work

>> No.21907308
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>Dedication to the reader
>Dedication to the reader's mother
>Acknowledgements
>Foreword
>Prologus
>Preface
>Forward
>Preface to the 1921 edition
>Preface to the 1936 edition
>Preface to the 1951 edition
>Fuck you to the reader
>List of illustrations
>List of figures
>List of maps
>List of lists
>Abbreviations
>Plates
>Square brackets indicate differences between editions
>Footnotes with asterisks indicate passages crossed out in original manuscript
>Numbered footnotes belong to the author
>Endnotes belong to the editor
>Glossary
>Subject index
>Name index
>Index of prohibited names
>Farewell to the reader

>> No.21907309

>>21907302
If you’re a brainlet who doesn’t already know the context for an important work.

>> No.21907310
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>>21907308
>>Farewell to the reader

>> No.21907320
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21907320

>book starts with ten pages of positive reviews and circlejerking about how this is the greatest novel about this specific event ever

>> No.21907329

>>21907302
>oh no the introduction spoiled the heckin plot!

>> No.21907332

>>21907309
If you‘re a retard who hasn‘t already read the important work

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>>21907320
>second edition
>new "Critics Slain" section

>> No.21907342

>>21907302
Always.

>> No.21907343

>>21907332
Brainlet argument. It's okay not to know things, man spends his whole life learning. It's never too late to pick up a book and make yourself smarter. I'm currently in my "read everything considered to be of literary merit" phase and I just turned 24. Just random shit. Books I've heard of but not read.

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>Acknowledgements
>This book wouldn't have been possible without the gracious support and help of the following people: John Smith, owner of the local liquor shop, your elixirs of life were most necessary; My cat, Boswell, for the CPR administered during my heart attack; and finally Napoleon Bonaparte, for teaching me to believe in myself.

>> No.21907401

>>21907308
Howling

>> No.21907412

>>21907308
Thanks for taking the time to type this. I really needed it. Carry on, fren.