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2023-03-27 -Great Cultural Revolution
Publishers remove 'offensive passages' from Agatha Christie books
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.

The works of Agatha Christie in the new edition are subjected to "politically correct" censorship
[REGNUM] From the new editions of the works of the English writer Agatha Christie , published by HarperCollins, they removed passages that may seem intolerant and politically incorrect, the British Daily Telegraph reports on March 25.

We are talking about new editions that are just planned to be released or that have already been published in the period from 2020. In particular, passages containing "descriptions, insults or references to ethnicity" were removed from works written between 1920 and 1976.

So, the internal monologues of two key characters of the writer, Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot, have been significantly changed.

The word “Indian” has been removed from the original phrase “his Indian character” in The Last Things of Miss Marple and two stories in the new version of the text, and from the novel “Caribbean Mystery” an entire passage has been deleted where the character did not see a black girl in the bushes at night.

Recall that at the US Merchant Marine Academy, by the decision of the leadership of the educational institution, a large picture on the biblical theme depicting Jesus Christ was covered with a curtain so that it could not offend anyone's feelings.
Posted by badanov 2023-03-27 00:00|| || Front Page|| [18 views ]  Top

#1 Surgical implementation of Fahrenheit 451. If certain passages of the Koran offend me, will they be removed?
Posted by Warthog 2023-03-27 08:07||   2023-03-27 08:07|| Front Page Top

#2 i hope they edit mister rogers and andy griffith!
Posted by Cholutle Thrans9751 2023-03-27 08:52||   2023-03-27 08:52|| Front Page Top

#3 I'm glad I have all electronic editions that *they* can't burn or re-edit. I recommend everyone get their copies soon before everything is pasteurized and homogenized for the 'greater good'.
Posted by AlmostAnonymous5839 2023-03-27 09:18||   2023-03-27 09:18|| Front Page Top

#4 /\ AA, unless your e-book is a PDF file on a CDROM then you are at the mercy of "Updates" ...stealth (quote)edits(un-quote) if you have a Kindle™ for example.
Posted by magpie 2023-03-27 09:35||   2023-03-27 09:35|| Front Page Top

#5 Good news for used books sellers.
Posted by Super Hose 2023-03-27 12:20||   2023-03-27 12:20|| Front Page Top

#6  I'm glad I have all electronic editions that *they* can't burn or re-edit. I recommend everyone get their copies soon before everything is pasteurized and homogenized for the 'greater good'.

I tried to find some unedited James Bond. It seems he's out of print and will continue that way until the edited version is printed.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2023-03-27 14:02||   2023-03-27 14:02|| Front Page Top

#7 Abu Uluque, I have found AbeBooks.com to be helpful in the past when looking for books. Helped me fill out some series that were missing a few books...
Posted by magpie 2023-03-27 15:21||   2023-03-27 15:21|| Front Page Top

#8 Before I went all e-book despite the risks (1400+ books on my iPad, bay-bee!), I too found AbeBooks.com useful. Amazon also has a lively second hand book market — there is some overlap of suppliers, but that’s ok.
Posted by trailing wife 2023-03-27 17:24||   2023-03-27 17:24|| Front Page Top

#9 I've gotten some obscure stuff from ThriftBooks.
Posted by M. Murcek 2023-03-27 17:53||   2023-03-27 17:53|| Front Page Top

#10 One can only imagine what the remake of Blazing Saddles would look like under this new Fascist LSD run generation.
Posted by NN2N1 2023-03-27 18:52||   2023-03-27 18:52|| Front Page Top

#11 Blazing Saddles would be about 8 minutes long - including the credits.
Posted by Rambler in Virginia  2023-03-27 21:16||   2023-03-27 21:16|| Front Page Top

#12 I can remember just a few years ago when they wanted to delete part of old movies where people were smoking cigarettes. Pathetic as that idea was, it ain't nuthin' compared to this current lunacy.
Posted by DooDahMan 2023-03-27 21:22||   2023-03-27 21:22|| Front Page Top

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