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- Perdita
- Reader
- Location: London
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- Divia
- Bibliomaniac
- Location: Always Cloudy, Central New York
I really want to read it. My library has an old copy from the 70s or whenever it was published. Does anyone know if they have updated it in any way or is it OK to get the older version?
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- Grasshopper
- Scribbler
- Location: Moore, OK, USA
- boswellbaxter
- Bibliomaniac
- Location: North Carolina
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"Divia" wrote:I really want to read it. My library has an old copy from the 70s or whenever it was published. Does anyone know if they have updated it in any way or is it OK to get the older version?
Brief Gaudy Hour was first published in the 1940's. As far as I know, the only change in the reprinted version is the addition of a readers' guide, so the old version should be OK.
Susan Higginbotham
Coming in October: The Woodvilles
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Coming in October: The Woodvilles
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- Perdita
- Reader
- Location: London
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"Divia" wrote:I really want to read it. My library has an old copy from the 70s or whenever it was published. Does anyone know if they have updated it in any way or is it OK to get the older version?
The date in my copy is 2008 so it must be a new edition. As Boswell said there are some interesting reader group questions in the back
- Divia
- Bibliomaniac
- Location: Always Cloudy, Central New York
Thanks everyone. I'm almost sure that the date on the library copy was 1970. hmm. I'll have to recheck. 

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- Vanessa
- Bibliomaniac
- Currently reading: A Fractured Winter by Allison Bailliet
- Interest in HF: The first historical novel I read was Katherine by Anya Seton and this sparked off my interest in this genre.
- Favorite HF book: Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell!
- Preferred HF: Any
- Location: North Yorkshire, UK
The Evil Seed by Joanne Harris
currently reading: My Books on Goodreads
Books are mirrors, you only see in them what you already have inside you ~ The Shadow of the Wind
Books are mirrors, you only see in them what you already have inside you ~ The Shadow of the Wind
- Telynor
- Bibliophile
- Location: On the Banks of the Hudson
"donroc" wrote:Yes, we own The Tango Lesson. I strongly recommend Tango Bar with Raul Julia and Tango, directed by Carlos Saura. Much dancing in both.
Thank you very much for the recommendations -- I haven't seen either of the films, but they are going right onto my Netflix queue.
Finished The Sharing Knife: Legacy by Lois McMaster Bujold yesterday, and all I want to say at the moment is read this book if you like smart fantasy for adults. Dag is, ahem, hot.
Now reading The Love Knot by our own EC.
- boswellbaxter
- Bibliomaniac
- Location: North Carolina
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"Divia" wrote:Thanks everyone. I'm almost sure that the date on the library copy was 1970. hmm. I'll have to recheck.![]()
It probably does say 1970; it's been reissued several times since it was first published. I think I have a 1970's edition somewhere myself.
Susan Higginbotham
Coming in October: The Woodvilles
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Coming in October: The Woodvilles
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