Our incomparable Sarah Schutte published a piece over the weekend that makes the case for keeping abridgment editors’ knives well away from the classics.

She writes:

It is my firm and unyielding opinion that abridged books are a detriment to society. We have this strange idea that books must be dumbed down in order for children to enjoy and understand them. Frankly, this is insulting to........

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