‘Offensive passages’ removed from Agatha Christie books
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The works of the English writer, author of detective stories Agatha Christie have been edited for publication by HarperCollins. From the new editions removed passages of text that may hurt the feelings of certain readers, according to the British newspaper Telegraph.
In edited works written by Christie between 1920 and 1976, in particular, passages containing “descriptions, insults or references to ethnicity” were removed.
Thus, from the novel Death on the Nile, a fragment of Mrs. Allerton’s statement, in which she complained about the “disgusting” eyes and noses of a group of children, disappeared. And from the novel “The Mysterious Affair at Stiles” the words of Hercule Poirot said about another character that he “of course is a Jew” disappeared.
From the original expression “his Indian character” in Miss Marple’s Last Cases and Two Stories, the edited version now omits the word “Indian”. A significant piece of text was removed from the novel “A Caribbean Secret”, where the character did not see a black girl in the bushes at night.
The books of the writer Agatha Christie are one of the most popular in the history of world literature.
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