The word "prologue" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a section of a book or play that introduces the story and characters. For example, "The novel began with an intriguing prologue that foreshadowed the events to come."
Higgins quoted Kettle as saying: "This tragedy of Europe may be and must be the prologue to the two reconciliations of which all statesmen have dreamed – the reconciliation of Protestant Ulster with Ireland and the reconciliation of Ireland with Great Britain".
Wycliffe's prologue is not concerned, as it might seem, with arguing for a form of representative democracy, but speaks specifically about the word of God: "This bible," it argues, "is for the government of the people, by the people, and for the people".
Invoking Abraham Lincoln (because, why not?), Carswell reminded his supporters in the hall and the political insomniacs watching on TV that some of the most resonant words of the Gettysburg address – "government of the people, by the people, for the people" – were not in fact coined by Lincoln, but taken from the prologue to Wycliffe's Bible.
In the movie's prologue, Hitchcock, in his only speaking role on the big screen, assures viewers that "every word is true", and indeed the movie is based on the "The True Story of Christopher Emmanuel Balestrero", a 1953 Life magazine story.
The novel opens at Book Three, moves on to Book One (following a prologue), then Book Two, then Book Four (briefly interrupted by an epilogue which, as a voice called "the author" explains, is "too important" to go at the end).
The British actor Andrew Garfield nevertheless seems like improbable casting for the prologue Spider-Man.
Messrs Gilberto and Getz would return the following year with a worldwide smash, the definitive version of "The Girl from Ipanema", an upbeat song written by Antonio Carlos Jobim and Vinicius de Moraes and inspired by a supple 15-year-old carioca, but which deals obliquely with an awareness of mortality.Mr Oliveira's involvement in the Carnegie Hall show was merely prologue.
And incidentally, for a demonstration of what a broken record American politics has been for the past 30 years, check out the prologue to the famous line:.
Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.ukIT IS no accident that the prologue to David Grossman's new novel, "To the End of the Land", takes place in a fever ward.
The second factor is a fight among the foreign investors who fuelled the boom; and for that, the Democratic Party government is squarely to blame.In this section Till Kimdom come Kings no more Past as prologue The pits Not ready for prime time ReprintsThe importance to Mongolia of OT, controlled by Rio Tinto, a British-Australian giant, is hard to overstate.
He hankers for a bigger role for national parliaments, but it is hard to see how this might emerge from today's institutional set-up.Intriguingly, most of Mr Van Middelaar's book was written before the euro crisis; he adds a prologue to the new English version.
