[HPforGrownups] Re: Children's versions?

[Denise]

No: HPFGUIDX 753

My god..... I own a copy of that from the early 1900s.
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Jim Hohman 
  To: HPforGrownups at egroups.com 
  Sent: Friday, September 01, 2000 8:44 PM
  Subject: [HPforGrownups] Re: Children's versions?



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  --- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, Peg Kerr <pkerr06 at a...> wrote:
  > 
  > 
  > 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

  OF COURSE!!! Peg, You just reminded me of the most famous book of 
  adult material changed to a childrens version.  Charles and Mary 
  Lamb's 'Tales From Shakespeare'.   

  Jim 


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