Sherlock Holmes Was: [Re: [Sca-cooks] OT: Harry Potter]

[Susan Fox-Davis]

I figured out the "abridged" thing early in life, and strove to find
unabridged editions of everything. All the public-domain classics
are available online now.

Sigh.  Where was this all when I was a reading-mad kid?
My parents were dedicated Freedom Of Information people
and did not limit my reading to age-appropriate niceness,
which made for an interesting education.  Interestingly,
I really didn't show any interest in smut anyway, which
just shows to go you that I could be trusted with my own
"censorship."  Wound up with two copies of the
unabridged Sherlock Holmes though - I never did
read an abridged edition.

I've got two sets of the Narnia books somewhere at home,
hardback and paperback, can I find either one?
NooOOOooo.  Grrr.  "In Arca Est" [It's In A Box]
is truly the household motto.

Selene Colfox

Terry Decker wrote:

> Dumas has the same problem.  Most American editions abridge The Three
> Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo.  I have an unabridged edition of
> the latter from my grandmother's library, 1100+ pages of very fine print.
> Compared to the intracacies of the unabridged version, the abridged versions
> read like a plot outline of a high school paper.
>
> Bear