Best-selling author Agatha Christie's books have reportedly become the latest target of sensitivity readers reworking or removing original passages in new editions of Poirot and Miss Marple mysteries published by HarperCollins.
These novels were written between 1920 and 1976, and now, it is reported that the revised editions are being stripped of certain language and descriptions that are deemed offensive.Some examples of the reported revisions include erasing references to people smiling and descriptions of their teeth and physiques and insults or references to ethnicity, such as"Oriental," per the Telegraph.Dialogue by"unsympathetic characters" has also reportedly been cut out.
In her 1920 debut novel The Mysterious Affair at Styles, the Poirot's comment about another character being “a Jew, of course” has additionally been cut. In the same book, all references to gypsies have been deleted.
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