The author's brief preface states that they were written to form part of the entertainment at the Saturnalia, but this is a literary convention.

He organised the material to be included into fifteen chapters, and added a brief preface and an appendix.

The collection consists of 58 chapters, each with a brief preface traditionally attributed to Confucius.

The project outgrew its original remit: it took more than a brief preface to do justice to the life and works of Milton or Pope.

Bauer then undertook to publish a lesser work himself, with Brown providing text limited to a brief preface and some captioning.

In a brief preface, Mr. Domingo recalls how he grew up loving this music.

Mr. Singer even cautions in a brief preface to the novel that the story "is by no means the story of the typical refugee."

According to Fihrist's brief preface, it is meant to be an index of all books written in Arabic, whether by Arabs or others.

Dunsany had a brief preface in the original edition and added a new introduction to the 1922 edition.

A brief preface cryptically alludes to a struggle between good and evil "at the end of Everything."