Updating modern audiences for old texts
With Dahl, navigating the challenges of reading texts from another time must be accompanied by an awareness of the worldviews that shaped them. By Kylie Crabbe
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A good teacher’s work is never done.[San Marcos, TX] [Hays County news] News San Marcos News, San Marcos Record [Texas State]
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Censoring children's books is an insult to their intelligence
AS so often, Roald Dahl (unexpurgated) put it best. In The Twits, prior to its bowdlerisation by Puffin Books, he observed of Mrs Twit: “Have you ever seen a woman with an uglier face than that? I doubt it. But the funny thing is that Mrs Twit wasn’t born ugly. She’d had quite a nice face when she was young. The ugliness had grown upon her year by year as she got older.
Source: standard.co.uk
Agatha Christie Novels Edited to Remove Racist Language
Several Agatha Christie novels have been edited to remove racist language, including Poirot and Miss Marple mysteries written between 1920 and 1976.
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RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: When are the wokerati going to stop butchering classic works of literature?
RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: No author is safe from the revisionists, not even Charles Dickens, judging by the BBC's latest adaptation of Great Expectations.
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