Agatha Christie becomes latest author revised by sensitivity readers: Report

Best-selling author Agatha Christie’s books have reportedly become the latest target of sensitivity readers reworking or removing original passages in new editions of Poirot and Miss Marple mysteries published by HarperCollins.

The revised copies of these books, which were written between 1920 and 1976, are reportedly being stripped of insulting language and details.

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According to the Telegraph, some of the reported revisions include erasing insults or references to ethnicity, such as” Oriental ,” as well as descriptions of smiling people’s teeth and bodies.

The Washington Examiner asked HarperCollins for confirmation and commentary, but she didn’t listen.

Additionally, it has reportedly been reported that speech by” unsympathetic figures” has been cut out.

According to reports, the sensitive visitors edited talks from Christie’s Mrs. Allerton from the 1937 Poirot book Dying on the Nile. She criticized a group of obnoxious kids in the text, saying,” Their eyelids are absolutely disgusting, and so are their faces.” According to the latest version, this description is removed.

In the same book,” The African boatman” is now just” the boatmen.”

A Caribbean Mystery, a 1964 Miss Marple book, underwent some revisions as clearly, and the new version omitted the phrase” such lovely white teeth” for the West Indian hotel employee. It was also removed that a female character had” a trunk of black stone such as he would have enjoyed.” Additional removal from the book was a racist slur directed at people with black or brown hair.

The Poirot’s remark about another nature being” a Jew, of system” has also been removed from her 1920 album book The Mysterious Affair at Styles. All gypsy-related links have been removed from the same book.

The latest version of Miss Marple’s Final Cases and Two Some Stories simply refers to an angry nature as” his Indian temper.”

Additionally, it is said that” Natives” has been replaced with the word” local.”

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Christie’s main work has undergone revisions in fresh editions as the book publishing sector has thus done so in an effort to accommodate contemporary sensibilities.

Several artists have had their works revised by text publishers, including R. L. Stine, Ian Fleming, and Roald Dahl.