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"Retold by" and "School Library Edition"
Don't they just turn your stomach?
Why do The Wind in the Willows and "The Reluctant Dragon" need to be "retold by" someone else? Are Roald Dahl and Robert Lewis Stevenson really such hacks that they need the help of modern writers?
Same goes for "School Library Editions" like the one I found of TWITW in a 99 cent bin. A tiny footnote on the copyright page explains the butchery:
EDITORS' NOTE: This school library edition does not include the chapters Dolce Domum and The Piper at the Gates of Dawn as they interrupt the adventures of Mr. Toad and may not hold the interest of younger readers.
Uh, more likely, the cuts were made to remove the Christian and pagan content in those chapters. I didn't check to see if all the references to firearms and alcoholic beverages had been scrubbed but I wouldn't have been surprised.
My 99 cents were better spent on a candy bar. And what atrocities have YOU found?
Don't they just turn your stomach?
Why do The Wind in the Willows and "The Reluctant Dragon" need to be "retold by" someone else? Are Roald Dahl and Robert Lewis Stevenson really such hacks that they need the help of modern writers?
Same goes for "School Library Editions" like the one I found of TWITW in a 99 cent bin. A tiny footnote on the copyright page explains the butchery:
EDITORS' NOTE: This school library edition does not include the chapters Dolce Domum and The Piper at the Gates of Dawn as they interrupt the adventures of Mr. Toad and may not hold the interest of younger readers.
Uh, more likely, the cuts were made to remove the Christian and pagan content in those chapters. I didn't check to see if all the references to firearms and alcoholic beverages had been scrubbed but I wouldn't have been surprised.
My 99 cents were better spent on a candy bar. And what atrocities have YOU found?
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