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> Thanks very much, Marc! I don't have the Layman
book, so in a nutshell,
were
> these revisions major? Did they "improve" the
original versions, in your
opinion?
I have not read the serialized versions, but according to
Layman, Hammett
(at the request of editor Blanche Knopf) cut a bit of RED
HARVEST's violence. Though the content was largely
unaffected, nearly every sentence shows revision. Pronouns
became nouns, contactions were expanded, sentences reordered,
phrases deleted, names changed. Layman says that the "changes
were intended to tighten his prose, to make it clearer and
sharper" (93).
Layman says the changes for THE DAIN CURSE were similar,
though Hammett was not as cheerful about making the revisions
this time.
~Marc
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