Pelham Grenville Wodehouse’s comic novels about aristocrat Bertram (Bertie) Wooster and his valet Reginald Jeeves have been modified to fit modern terminology. It has been reported TASS With reference to the Sunday Telegraph.
“A thousand thanks, Jeeves!” 1934 opens with a note: “Please note that this book was published in the 1930s and contains language, themes, and images that you may find dated.”
Publisher Penguin Random House stresses that the new edition removes the words “unacceptable for today’s readers.” It’s not known exactly what’s at stake, but in 2022, editors removed or replaced parts containing racial terminology in another Grenville novel, All Right, Jeeves.
Robert Stein, former author of the horror children’s book series accused It was noted that the censored publisher Scholastic publishing house made more than 100 changes, for example, drawing attention to the expression “fool” from the words “chubby” to “funny” and “crazy”.