Nobel Prize winner Ernest Hemingway is the latest literary target of a politically correct publisher who feels compelled to qualify the writings of one of the nation’s most influential authors for readers.
Publisher Penguin Random House recently reissued his works with warnings on “language and attitudes,” a move which is drawing criticism from both Hemingway biographers and some university professors.
Specifically, Hemingway’s “The Old Man and the Sea” was reissued while his 1926 novel “The Sun Also Rises” includes the warning: “The publisher’s decision to present it as it was originally published is not intended as an endorsement of cultural representations or language contained herein.”…