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Originally Posted by Aleron Ives
Is there a way to tell which version you're getting from the various stores?
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The version I got from publisher Open Road Media includes the following in the Introduction by Michael Dirda:
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“Perhaps the finest American heroic fantasy”—so E. F. Bleiler, the great scholar of supernatural and fantasy literature, summed up The Broken Sword. Poul Anderson himself felt that the original version of the book was too “savage” and, for a revised edition published in 1971, smoothed out its sentences and slightly altered one important section. Yet most readers prefer the brutal, lyrical excess of the 1954 text and it is that which is reprinted here. In the era of A Game of Thrones we can handle a bit of savagery.
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I can also confirm via a text search that my ebook contains 46 instances of the word "faerie" but only one of the word "fairy" (in use with the phrase "fairy tale"), so the Open Road Media version (ISBN: 978-1-4976-9586-3) is almost certainly the unexpurgated version. This seems to be the one available for sale at most sites (e.g.
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-broken-sword-4).
Incidentally, the Kindle version of The Broken Sword appears to be on sale right now, so, remove all doubt and buy it again for $1.99:
https://www.amazon.com/Broken-Sword-.../dp/B00PI181JI
EDIT: The ISBN is slightly different on the Kobo listing, but I'm positive they're the same edition. In any case, the Michael Dirda introduction is visible in the Kobo Book Preview, so you're getting the right one.