![]() ![]() ![]() “Puffin Books and the Dahl estate should be ashamed.’’ “Roald Dahl was no angel but this is absurd censorship,’’ Rushdie wrote on Twitter. ![]() Rushdie lived in hiding for years after Iran’s Grand Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in 1989 issued a fatwa calling for his death because of the alleged blasphemy in his novel “The Satanic Verses.” He was attacked and seriously injured last year at an event in New York state. Fox.” The machines are now simply “murderous, brutal-looking monsters.”īooker Prize-winning author Salman Rushdie was among those who reacted angrily to the rewriting of Dahl’s words. The word “black” was removed from the description of the terrible tractors in 1970s “The Fabulous Mr. The changes made by Puffin Books, a division of Penguin Random House, first were reported by Britain’s Daily Telegraph newspaper.Īugustus Gloop, Charlie’s gluttonous antagonist in “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” which originally was published in 1964, is no longer “enormously fat,” just “enormous.” In the new edition of “Witches,” a supernatural female posing as an ordinary woman may be working as a “top scientist or running a business” instead of as a “cashier in a supermarket or typing letters for a businessman.” A review of new editions of Dahl’s books now available in bookstores shows that some passages relating to weight, mental health, gender and race were altered. ![]()
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