Doug Bassett:
> Well, you must've discussed Latimer before I came
on
> board. As for SOLOMON'S VINEYARD, somehow I got a
hold
> of a Blue Murder UK paperback reprint of the book.
I'm
> pretty sure it's the unexpurgated version
(although
> someone please remind me -- what was cut in
the
> American version?)
Doug, From the 1988 International Polgonics pb:
Solomon's Vineyard has never been available to the general
public in its author's own country.(A highly expurgated
version entitled The Fifth Grave was offered in the US in
1950's, but until now the complete text has only apperared in
a privately printed limited edition.) The probable reason
apparant in the novel's first sentence, SV was too realistic
for a prewar America which routinely cenored films and on
occasion banned books.
In an introduction it says the book as The Fifth Grave was
toned down and softened.
When I read it last year I didn't see anythig that would
cause censoring, but that was almost fifty years later.
Mark
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