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Originally Posted by jgaiser
Print books have been bowdlerized for centuries. The word comes from Thomas Bowdler who created The Family Shakespeare in which he rewrote the Shakespeare plays to remove all the words he thought women and children shouldn't be reading.
Recently a publisher reported that they were publishing a copy of Mark Twain's Huck Finn with all the n-words removed.
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I remember hearing someone was going to try something similar with C.S. Lewis's Narnia books. They objected to the Christian Allegory in the tales and wanted to re-write them. Of course if they do that they destroy the books as the Christian elements are as much a part of the Narnia books as they are part of Pilgrim's Progress. Whenever someone else tries to re-write an author's words I get nervous. After all who are they to decide what is fit for me to read?