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Originally Posted by HarryT
Same storyline, yes, but nonetheless a rewrite by a different author.
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Yeah, a rewrite that edited the racism and stereotying and old-fashioned wording out of the original material. That's exactly what some people think should be done to the classics, to make them accessible, isn't it?
In
The Secret of the Old Clock, a trapped Nancy at one point says: "Archimedes didn't know what he was talking about when he said the world could be moved with a lever." Compare the revision: "That old Greek scientist, Archimedes, didn't know what he was talking about when he said the world could be moved with a lever."
Isn't that the sort of thing some folks want to do, so the little darlings who are reading the book won't have to stop and pull out a dictionary? Of course, that Nancy revision is more than 50 years old--probably today the whole passage would be deemed too arcane for the young'uns.