[HPforGrownups] Children's versions?

Peg Kerr pkerr06 at attglobal.net
Fri Sep 1 23:37:27 UTC 2000


No: HPFGUIDX 745



Neil Ward wrote:.

but can anyone think of an example of a book or series in

> which the adult-level content was cut or changed in order to provide a
> 'children's version'?

The very word "Bowdlerize" is derived from the name of an English editor,
Thomas Bowdler (1754-1825) who published an expurgated Shakespeare (i.e., with
the naughty/offensive bits taken out).

Peg





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