Poirot and Miss Marple mysteries have passages edited by sensitivity readers for latest HarperCollins editions.
Several Agatha Christie novels have been edited to remove potentially offensive language, including insults and references to ethnicity.
Poirot and Miss Marple mysteries written between 1920 and 1976 have had passages reworked or removed in new editions published by HarperCollins to strip them of language and descriptions that modern audiences find offensive, especially those involving the characters Christie’s protagonists encounter outside the UK.
Sensitivity readers had made the edits, which were evident in digital versions of the new editions, including the entire Miss Marple run and selected Poirot novels set to be released or that have been released since 2020, the Telegraph reported.
The updates follow edits made to books by Roald Dahl and Ian Fleming to remove offensive references to gender and race in a bid to preserve their relevance to modern readers.
Read more here @ The Guardian
If a reader is so immature and close-minded that they cannot appreciate a work for what it is and when it was written, then they don't deserve to have any voice in publishing. As far as I am concerned, this is something akin to censorship and sensitivity readers should be consigned to Dante's Sixth Circle of Hell - Heresy! I am so glad that my collection is still in its glorious, politically incorrect, original format.
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