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Originally Posted by HarryT
It's right that modern editions of these books should be appropriately edited for today's multicultural British society, just as in the US the "Hardy Boys" and "Nancy Drew" series were.
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This is expurgation by any other name, and what rights does a publisher have to edit the works of an author, now deceased? It would be more appropriate for the editors to write a new Foreward explaining the context of the language and social perceptions at the time of first copyright. Eventually, the tyranny of Political Correctness will even cause Shakespeare's works to be bowdlerized.