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Scholars Disagree on Revisions of Books

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From: Chicago Sun-Times
Date: 19930411
Author:Hillel Italie

"I don't mind if Duckworth crosses out a hundred shady pages in `Sons and Lovers.' It's got to sell, I've got to live."

D.H. Lawrence, reacting to the editing of his controversial novel. NEW YORK After William Styron completed his novel, Lie Down in Darkness, the publisher insisted some racy passages be deleted. Reluctantly, the author agreed. It was 1951 and he was still unknown, in no position to do anything but keep his objections to himself.

Forty years later, everything had changed. Styron was a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and fiction was coming out that made the censored ...

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