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When I was in Grade 8 in school, I read Booth Tarkington's Penrod. Even at my age at that time, I realized that it was dated, racist, etc. My parents agreed but pointed out that for it's publication date around 1910, it was not all that bad.
Fast forward to 2017 when an edition was published that revised or omitted certain ethnic descriptions that might be considered inappropriate, offensive, whatever. A book club I belonged to at work made it the book to read one month. The opinion of most of the members was that not only had they revised or omitted much of the ethnic descriptions, they had also omitted much of the readability of the original edition. Thomas Bowdler would have approved.
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