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"Literary recycling of this nature is as much about a savvy sense of marketing opportunities as it is about a literature coming of age. The point at which out-of-print works are canonised in glossy and prefaced new editions is the juncture at which commercial publishing decisions and informed literary evaluation meet. But such a meeting of the commercial and the aesthetic motive remains dependent on fairly arbitrary and happenstance decisions often based on selective considerations of taste. "
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