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Originally Posted by HarryT
A question to the people who object to the editing of Mark Twain: do you also object to the editing of Agatha Christie? Do you think that "And Then There Were None" should be sold in the USA under the title "Ten Little Niggers", with an island called "Nigger Island" and a nursery rhyme about "Ten little niggers"?
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Leave it as it was originally published
unless any editing or re-writing is done by the author.
For whatever reason there is a long history of publishing the same book with different titles in Britain and America. The authors have included Joseph Conrad, Peter George, Angela Carter, Bill Bryson, Stephen Fry, Philip Ardagh, Katherine Kerr, and J K Rowling -- not to mention the whole
Where's Wally/Where's Waldo series.
Some titles have included "questionable" words but most have not, so who knows exactly why these decisions were made. You would need to ask the author and/or the publisher. Without those people available to defend their judgements the works should stand as written and published.