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No, it's never fine to revise books unless the author is doing it. If people are offended, or don't like Dahl, they don't have to buy or borrow the books. The House of Random Penguins has lost the plot. What next? A cleaned up version of Mien Kampf (I know not remotely comparable to Dahl's work, but logically that's the sort place revisionism takes you too).
I'd not buy any of Roald Dahl's books, though I admit to enjoying the original version of the movie The Witches. But Puffin (an imprint of the ever expanding House of Random Penguins) is quite free to publish them. But as they really are.
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