Showing posts with label reissuing uncensored digital version of James Jones' From Here to Eternity by heirs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label reissuing uncensored digital version of James Jones' From Here to Eternity by heirs. Show all posts

Saturday, April 9, 2011

Author’s Heirs Uncensor a Classic War Novel; New York Times, 4/4/11

Julie Bosman, New York Times; Author’s Heirs Uncensor a Classic War Novel:

"When the classic novel “From Here to Eternity” was published in 1951, a few things were gone that had been in the original manuscript: explicit mentions of gay sex and a number of four-letter words...

Sixty years later Mr. Jones’s estate has made a deal to reissue a digital version of the book that restores those cuts. The book is still in print."