Even the bestselling novelist in the world isn’t being spared woke rewrite treatments to spare the delicate sensitivities of modern readers, with Agatha Christie’s works getting the full treatment from her publisher.
The newspaper reported the edits cut references to ethnicity, such as describing a character as black, Jewish or gypsy or a female character’s torso as “of black marble” and a judge’s “Indian temper”, and remove terms such as “Oriental” and the N-word.
English detective novelist, Agatha Christie typing at her home, Greenway House, Devon, January 1946. This has reportedly been stripped down in a new edition to state: “They come back and stare, and stare. And I don’t believe I really like children.”, the amateur detective’s musing that a hotel worker smiling at her has “such lovely white teeth” has been removed, the newspaper added.lists Christie as the best-selling fiction writer of all time, her books having sold more than two billion copies.
As well as writing top selling novels, Christie also created the world’s longest-running play, the murder mystery
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