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Old 04-18-2012, 12:18 PM   #138
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Originally Posted by Catlady View Post
I read only a few Trixies, but I have read Nancy Drew in both the original and the modernized, sanitized versions. The stereotyping and racism were removed in the great purge, but so were the liveliness, the recklessness, and the excitement, not to mention Nancy's sense of entitlement and utter disregard for the rights of suspected wrongdoers. Of course, Nancy was a Stratemeyer Syndicate creation and they could do what they wanted with their product, but there is not one volume that was improved in the updating.
The same is true of the "Hardy Boys" books, but both of those were examples of a total rewrite by a different author, merely retaining the original title. Very different to what's generally considered "editing".
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