[jgray]

Originally Posted by banjomike

This is a link to a "comparison text" of Tarzan of the Apes. It merges the original text with the censored/bowdlerized Ballantine version (shown in red).

http://www.erblist.com/erbmania/novels/toafuchs.html

I assume that when that comparison was made, the 1914 version mentioned was not available on Google Books. It is now.

http://books.google.com/books?id=ZbB...page&q&f=false

I just took a preliminary look at the epub version and it seems better than many I had gotten from Google Books. It isn't perfect, but it would be a usable starting point for someone like HarryT to create a better epub.

Personally, I'm against changing an author's work to fit the "sensibilities" of the day. George Orwell wrote about where that ultimately leads. An author, a musician, an artist, etc. are all products of their times. You can't judge them by later standards, and they certainly shouldn't be revised to fit those standards.

Joe