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Old 01-04-2015, 01:10 PM   #32
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Originally Posted by Fiat_Lux View Post
I'd be surprised, and not only because the UK edition has to be translated for the US publisher.

If the book was originally published in the UK, the US edition is usually a botched abridgement that lacks all of the literary merit of the original British editition.
Can you give an example? Why would a US edition be abridged?
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