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The big difference between the two is that Ms. Christie only passed away in 1976 and was alive when said work was edited, exhibiting no objection to said changes --- indeed many of her portrayals of non-whites is sympathetic, esp. after World War II.
Samuel Clements is long dead, and _Huckleberry Finn_ is an artifact of a past time and needs to be studied as is, along w/ the historical context in order for the full meaning to be made of it.
No one would object to a children's edition, labeled as such --- the problem is the intellectual dishonesty of passing the bowdlerization off as the real thing.
I sympathise w/ NVash's position --- I grew up in a school which had the second-lowest tax base in the state and the worst educational standing which was 60% black, 40% white, save that it had one family of Amer-asians (myself and my sister). Ill-behaved trash comes in all colors and I am certain that Martin Luther King would include equal jail time in his dream that all men be judged by the content of their character.
William
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