Catch 22
You mean Our Mutual Friend.
The answer is the preface. A prologue is the introductory or prefatory section of a novel.
Catch-22.
Catch-22 is the paradoxical reasoning from the book by Joseph Heller of the same name. The novel is centered around soldiers who want to be exempt from flying missions due to insanity. But it was proof of their sanity if they asked to be grounded from the missions because only people who are insane would fly them. By this logic, no soldier could be grounded.
People take a novel on vacation. It begins with the letter n.
The Razor's Edge (1944)
The children's novel that begins with the line "Where's Papa going with that Axe?" is "Charlotte's Web" by E.B. White.
quality
From the American author Joe Heller. the title of his 1961 novel. It is a provision in army regulations that a soldier can be relieved of active duty because he is mentally unfit to fight. But, any soldier who can ask this question must be mentally sound and thus must fight.
Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury. The first line of the novel is referencing the firemen's attitude toward burning books and the houses that shelter them.
detective story
the title and the author