The library has purchased a number of titles
from the Townsend Library Classics.
These
books have been edited to make them more
accessible to struggling readers.
The books
have not been “abridged” in the sense of
shortening them or imposing on the story...
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The library has purchased a number of titles
from the Townsend Library Classics.
These
books have been edited to make them more
accessible to struggling readers.
The books
have not been “abridged” in the sense of
shortening them or imposing on the story line,
character development, or author’s voice.
The
Townsend Classics strive to maintain the
book’s key elements while using language
that contemporary readers will find more
palpable.
An example of the Townsend
version vs.
the original can be seen in these
excerpts from Treasure Island:
The original reads, “Squire Trewlaney, Dr.
Livesey, and the rest of these gentlemen
having asked me to write down the particulars
about Treasure Island, from the beginning to
end, keeping nothing back but the bearings o
the island, and that only because there is still
treasure not yet lifted, I take up my pen in the
year of grace 17--, and go back to the time
when my father kept the “Admiral Benbow”
Townsend Library (Edited Classics)
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