The Book of Prefaces
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The Book of Prefaces
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The Book of Prefaces, is a 2000 book "edited and glossed" by the Scottish artist and novelist Alasdair Gray. It seeks to provide a history of how literature spread and developed through the nations of England, Ireland, Scotland, and the United States. Its subtitle A Short History of Literate Thought in Words by Great Writers of Four Nations from the 7th to the 20th Century outlines its scope. Gray's own preface begins with "An Editor's Advertisement" which cites William Smellie's preface to The
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Book by Alasdair Gray
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