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Originally Posted by kennyc
WTF? I kinda hate this. Almost every book has been toiled over and scenes re-written, that doesn't mean they should ever see the light of day.
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One book which today is normally printed with its (merely one) alternative ending is Dickens's "Great Expectations". Dickens's friend, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, considered that the ending was too sad, and persuaded him to rewrite it, but most modern critics feel that the original ending is more in keeping with the tone of the book. Almost all modern editions (including the version we have in the MR library) include the original ending as an appendix.