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A Christmas Carol: Adapted for Modern Readers
by Charles Dickens
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A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say. We just give it a new voice.— Editorial principle №1
Every Lumos edition begins with the original text in front of us, sentence by sentence. We modernize syntax that has aged into difficulty, untangle Victorian subordinate clauses, and surface idioms that have quietly drifted out of common use.
What we don't do: simplify the story, cut the texture, or smooth away the strangeness. The whale is still huge. The moor is still cold. Heathcliff is still — Heathcliff. You'll just be able to feel it on the first read instead of the third.