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* ''The Thousand and One Nights'' has also seen a number of children's editions, leaving out the erotic and scatalogical tales.
** As well as the fact that the entire book is based on a woman's spinning wild "cliffhanger" tales, in order to avoid being killed by her paranoid-jealous husband (to prevent her from cheating on him), by keeping him in suspense to hear the ending!
* The old [https://web.archive.org/web/20120819164024/http://www.classicscentral.com/list0.htm Classics Illustrated comic books].
** And the [[wikipedia:Great Illustrated Classics|Great Illustrated Classics]], by extension. The "adapter" added one whole chapter about a [[Cold War]] allegory to ''[[The Time Machine]]''.
* This is the in-story reason Mr. Goldman abridged ''[[The Princess Bride (novel)|The Princess Bride]]''. He wanted his kids to enjoy it, and there was far too much boring stuff. However, he did leave in all the torture and death (though he ''does'' warn us about what's coming at one point, telling us that this isn't ''Curious George Uses The Potty''). Mr. Goldman's (in-story) father's Good Parts abridgment fits the trope more accurately. He tried to leave out the scary parts until he was called on it.
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