Penguin has decided Roald Dahl’s books can remain intact after all.
The decision to publish “The Roald Dahl Classic Collection” comes just days after Puffin, the children’s imprint of Penguin Random House, faced an onslaught of backlash for announcing alterations of Dahl’s texts in new editions of the 20th-century books. The classic collection, however, would offer readers 17 of Dahl’s original titles free of any sensitivity rewrites.
Classics like “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” “Matilda” and “The Witches” were sanitized to remove offensive and insensitive language. Some references to ethnicity, gender, physical characteristics and mental health were changed to adhere to more modern sensibilities.
