Ever since i read All Quiet on the Western Front and discovered they took out the *Mild Spoiler* shitting together scene in the version i was reading, ive been wary of older editions of books. The Signet version (1955/57) of On The Road by Jack Kerouac fell into my lap and i wanna read it but not if its gonna be censored. (i never read On the Road before)
by BagBeneficial8060
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It’s not just older editions you have to watch out for, unfortunately. There are new editions of Ginsberg that censor Howl and Kaddish, for example (it’s especially bad with Howl, which contains deliberate “censoring” by the author, for poetic effect – if you’re reading an actually-censored edition you can’t tell which removals are his, and which are the “protecting” any children who decided to read a 50s poem about homosexual heroin addicts).