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Originally Posted by Quoth
Now Penguin is "cleaning up" P. G. Wodehouse's "unacceptable" prose.
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There's some back and forth between whether the hit is from libraries or bowdlerizing, and I'm uncertain which is worse.
In World War II, for Wodehouse, it was libraries:
George Orwell, "In Defense of P. G. Wodehouse"
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numerous lending libraries withdrew Wodehouse's books from circulation
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