One-Star Reviews on Amazon.com: "And Then There Were None," Agatha Christie (Part III)
Indians edited out!!
“Don’t buy this $12.95 edition with black cover and red images. It has been weirdly edited to remove all references to Indians! There’s no explanation anywhere in the book. Agatha Christie’s classic has gone through many editions through more than half a century using the classic “Ten Little Indians” nursery rhyme and the setting of Indian Island. Then, for some unknown reason, all the Indians were removed in this “bogus” edition and replaced by soldiers. Readers at least should be given an explanation for such a change. If the references were deemed by some unknown censor to be insulting to Indians, would they be any less insulting to soldiers?? I don’t get it. Anyone interested in reading a better version should order the little black paperback with blue images for about half the price. As I have urged my local book store, I will urge Amazon, don’t stock this book. I am an English teacher who has taught this book for years, and I am mystified by such an unwarranted and unexplained change. “
—Bonnie Emmons “English teacher,” February 17 2007
BRB, banging my head off the nearest hard surface.
