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For questions about the history of the manuscripts, printed texts, or orally transmitted versions of a single work; or when and where a work was first published; or specific features of one or more editions; or how editors establish an accurate or authoritative text, etc. Not to be confused with the [publishing] tag, which is about publishing practices generally, or the [historical-context] tag, which is about relevant background information.
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Why does Great Illustrated Classics change details in its abridged versions?
From the Wikipedia article on Great Illustrated Classics:
The Great Illustrated Classics series of books offers easy-to-read
adaptations of well known classics, featuring large print and
illus …
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Gagool, Gagoola, or Gagaoola?
In Chapter One of King Solomon's Mines we have the first reference to one of the main antagonists of the story:
Stop, though! there is Gagaoola, if she was a woman, and not a fiend.
Throughout the r …
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Why do I have a different version of "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"?
The first stanza of Robert Frost's "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" reads as follows in its original publication in New Hampshire (1923):
Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is …
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