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Some people confuse Prologue with Preface. A prologue is really chapter 0. I advise people to just call Chapter 1 (if they number chapters) and maybe put "prologue", or "what happened earlier" as a preamble title.
Prefaces added to deceased authors work, or "classic" works seem very skipable and often want to be read at the end, if at all, sometimes being full of snobbish literary criticism and/or spoilers. The actual original edition author's preface are usually not bad, but not usually important.
The Prologue is important, so is the Epilogue. However maybe today on new titles the authors/publishers need to drop those names?
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