The City and the Pillar

The City and the Pillar on its own is at least two works: the original 1948 work and the revised 1965. That, I understand. The politics and the plot aren't the same in the two works.

But there's this "revised and unexpurgated" (1990s?) edition that has me baffled while I'm cleaning these up.

https://www.librarything.com/work/27930833/editions

We have the 1965 work as an "expansion" of the 1948, because that appears to be closest fit from the LibraryThing relationships menu. However, the revised work not only replaced but excluded some content from the original work.

So, is the "revised and unexpurgated" a blend of the earlier two or simply another edition of the revised work from 1965? Perhaps someone here is familiar enough with it to know. I'm not easily finding an answer by searching the internet.

I'm not familiar with the work. I guess one might possibly label that an abridged version of the 2nd edition though. (Not entirely satisfactory, I get it.)

Why do you think it is abridged?

>2 Nicole_VanK: I only know these words by their dictionary definitions, but with those I think unexpurgated and abridged are antonyms. Did you mean unabridged?

>4 aspirit: Oops, yes. I read the OP as saying expurgated. Sorry.

>5 Nicole_VanK: No worries! And I think you might be correct. I haven't seen anything else suggesting an abridged, or expurgated, edition of any version from Gore Vidal, but Time Warner Books UK might have had a habit of using "unexpurgated" in covers for marketing purposes.