Adapted for young people by warren st. John. Its been written down when you doubt that its for young people. He took 100 pages out of it. So this is the shorter version. But the title rather nicely captures the spirit of this whole enterprise. The outcast united students are taught to think of themselves as outcasts. Theyre united in coming together in this oppositional enterprise in which theyre going to generate a newer who wholesome, culture, and thats a main reason why classic books written before they were born are so few. 91 of the books signed in common reading programs around the country this year were written after these children were born. 91 . So, its as though the written word hardly existed before they did. There are few sort of hints there might have been something written down in english earlier, but you have to go to some pretty faraway colleges in southern utah and places like that, i would say there is a major exception right here in new York City Columbia University