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Originally Posted by Bookpossum
Thanks crich70. I hunted it down and it appears under Anonymous and is the Richard Burton version (which does include the naughty bits), taken from Gutenberg and tidied up by the late and much missed Patricia, for whom the library is named.
I have downloaded it as well and am interested to see how it compares with the others.
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The cut down version might be considered to be 'bowdleized' a term named after
Thomas_Bowdler
Some people will maim anything that they feel offends their sense of what is proper. I can understand wanting to protect children from something too old for them but some people take it too far.