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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Sarah Shaffi and Lucy Knight

Roald Dahl publisher announces unaltered 16-book ‘classics collection’

A boy reads Roald Dahl's James and The Giant Peach
‘Challenging’ reading. Photograph: The Washington Post/Getty Images

A collection of Roald Dahl’s books with unaltered text is to be published after a row over changes made to novels including Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and The Witches.

Dahl’s publisher Puffin, the children’s imprint of Penguin Random House, was criticised this week after the Telegraph reported that it had hired sensitivity readers to go over the beloved author’s books and language deemed to be offensive would be removed from new editions. In response, Puffin has decided to release Dahl’s works in their original versions with its new texts.

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