About a month ago, there was discussion here about plans to edit Roald Dahl's works: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34849383 https://news.ycombinator.com

About a month ago, there was discussion here about plans to edit Roald Dahl's works: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34849383 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34849383 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35017120 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35017120 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34925396 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34925396 More recently, there was discussion here about editing Agatha Christie's works: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35315170 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35315170 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35338085 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35338085 Existing works, even those considered to be classics by many readers, and written by authors who passed away decades ago, can be affected by this sort of "sanitization" well after the fact.