> That’s not a translation, whatever the publisher is calling it! Abridged translations have been pretty normal in the publishing world, in fact this is a trad

> That’s not a translation, whatever the publisher is calling it! Abridged translations have been pretty normal in the publishing world, in fact this is a tradition that goes back centuries. Think of authors who made a big splash across Europe in the Renaissance and early modern era: Cervantes, Chaucer, Boccaccio. They were usually read in abridged versions, not the full work.