I just wanted to circle back to this post of yours,

and express 100% agreement with you.

This revising of past books as you describe is a real crime. All books should be given the light of day.

The big publishing houses these days are unprincipled, and only about the money.

Uncle Toms Cabin was banned in the South in 1852,

as it was about the horrors of slavery - not a popular notion down there then. It is not a banned book now.