[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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