Comment by vintagedave
13 hours ago
May I ask: what was different? This is the first time I’ve heard of this and I’ve only seen what was, likely, the new edition.
13 hours ago
May I ask: what was different? This is the first time I’ve heard of this and I’ve only seen what was, likely, the new edition.
My original copy was printed in 1977. His wife's version that I have was printed in 1981.
Parts V and VI were removed from the wife's version.
The removed sections:
1. Letters That Produced Miraculous Results - cut because correspondence norms had massively changed between 1936 and 1981
2. Seven Rules for Making Your Home Life Happier - cut because its 1930s-era perspectives on marriage and domestic life didn't age that well
Personally, I think some of the edits in the remaining sections are more controversial than the removal of those two sections. I think the revision lost quite a bit of Dale's charm and just felt a bit less idiosyncratic in a bad way.