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From Roald Dahl and James Bond<\/a> to R.L. Stine and myriad fairy tails<\/a>, the woke work of \u201csensitivity\u201d readers continues unabated? For many people, why this is happening is a mystery. But that and other mysteries is now more woke<\/em>.<\/p>\n \u201cAgatha Christie novels have been rewritten for modern sensitivities, The Telegraph can reveal.<\/p>\n \u201cPoirot and Miss Marple mysteries have had original passages reworked or removed in new editions published by HarperCollins.<\/p>\n \u201cThe character of a British tourist venting her frustration at a group of children has been purged from a recent reissue, while a number of references to people smiling and comments on their teeth and physiques, have also been erased.<\/p>\n \u201c\u2026<\/p>\n \u201cThe author\u2019s own narration, often through the inner monologue of Miss Jane Marple or Hercule Poirot, has been altered in many instances. Sections of dialogue uttered by often unsympathetic characters within the mysteries have also been cut.<\/p>\n \u201cIn the 1937 Poirot novel Death on the Nile, the character of Mrs Allerton complains that a group of children are pestering her, saying that \u2018they come back and stare, and stare, and their eyes are simply disgusting, and so are their noses, and I don\u2019t believe I really like children\u2019.<\/p>\n \u201cThis has been stripped down in a new edition to state: \u2018They come back and stare, and stare. And I don\u2019t believe I really like children\u2019.<\/p>\n \u201cVocabulary has also been altered, with the term \u2018Oriental\u2019 removed. Other descriptions have been altered in some instances, with a black servant, originally described as grinning as he understands the need to stay silent about an incident, described as neither black nor smiling but simply as \u2018nodding\u2019.<\/p>\n \u201c\u2026<\/p>\n \u201cDialogue in Christie\u2019s 1920 debut novel The Mysterious Affair at Styles has been altered, so where Poirot once noted that another character is \u201ca Jew, of course\u201d, he now makes no such comment.<\/p>\n \u201cIn the same book, a young woman described as being of gypsy type\u2019 is now simply \u2018a young woman\u2019, and other references to gypsies have been removed from the text.<\/p>\n \u201cThe 1979 collection Miss Marple\u2019s Final Cases and Two Other Stories includes the character of an Indian judge who grows angry demanding his breakfast in the original text with \u2018his Indian temper\u2019, a phrase now changed to say \u2018his temper\u2019.<\/p>\n \u201cReferences to \u2018natives\u2019 have also been removed or replaced with the word \u2018local\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n What happened to the missing text and who placed the forgery passages? Not even Miss Marple or Poirot could solve that now\u2026<\/p>\n Keep old books\u2014they are harder to recon.<\/p><\/div>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" From Roald Dahl and James Bond to R.L. Stine and myriad fairy tails, the woke work of \u201csensitivity\u201d readers continues unabated? For many people, why this is happening is a mystery. But that and other mysteries is now more woke. … Continue reading \n
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