![]() I have acquired a few Agatha Christie books from another BCer a while back and one of them is "Ten Little Niggers" which I understand has been 'renamed' as "And Then There Were None" (and any screen plays based on this novel are called "Ten Little Indians"). Besides, even if there are offensive things in it, reading a book does not equal believing everything in the book. It's a murder mystery, after all, and unless things have been drastically edited, the only offensive things are the name of the book and the name of the island in the book. ![]() I also wouldn't be ashamed to be seen reading it or have it appear on my shelf. Honestly, the idea of a bookcrossing label in that book makes me cringe, simply because of the historical value of that particular copy. I would agree that it probably isn't the best book to wild release, but you should certainly pass it around among bookcrossers or perhaps donate it to some library that would be interested in the historical value of the book. The name of the Island is still Indian Island (which I assume it was changed to when the title was changed to Ten Little Indians). Interestingly enough, the cover of the copy I have notes that it was previously published as Ten Little Indians and features a picture of an axe cutting off a Native American's head, but not that it was previously published as Ten Little Niggers. It was later changed to Ten Little Indians, and later still to And Then There Were None. The original title of the book when it was published in 1939 was Ten Little Niggers. I would actually be very interested in seeing that book, so I could compare it to the copy I currently have of "And Then There Were None", which is the same book after going through not one, but TWO edits for political correctness.
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