![]() ![]() ![]() The first Seal edition (with the cover in which Rilla looks a bit like a vampire) used the plates of the American Reprint Company edition, which had silently abridged the text by about 4% (about 4,500 words, or 20 pages) in the 1970s the second Seal edition, the one that's still in print today, reset the same text. Benjamin Lefebvre is the editor of both of these books: "Yes, there are a number of differences between the Seal edition of Rilla of Ingleside and the Viking Canada edition Andrea McKenzie and I edited. The only original-text books published recently, to our knowledge, are The Blythes Are Quoted (the unabridged version of The Road to Yesterday) and Rilla of Ingleside, both published by Viking Canada, 20.ĭr. All reprints since then, especially paperbacks and current editions, appear to have used edited texts, in spite of claims printed on the inner pages of some of the books. ![]() NOVELS - Note: The only truly unabridged books are the Montgomery books published before the 1940s (and possibly 1950s) which used the text from the original plates. ![]()
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