On Radio 4 this morning it mentioned that Hemingway had written 47 different endings to his novel. A Farewell to Arms, before...

sandyRoe | 10:57 Sun 08th Jul 2012 | ChatterBank

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...he finally settled on one.
It got me thinking. If you could change the end of a literary work what would it be?
I wouldn't kill off Cordelia at the end of Lear. At the end of Ulysses I'd have Molly and Leo canoodling rather than just lying with their silly thoughts.

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jno

Nahum Tate married off Cordelia and Edgar in his rewriting of Lear, and Dr Johnson approved of it.

Suppose the Famous Five actually got buried in a landslip on Kirrin island and were never seen again.

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You go too far, suggesting harming the Famous 5. Sacrilege !

emmie

interesting question, not sure i would change most endings of books i have loved. But Hard Times by Charles Dickens is light on laughs, maybe would could add a few chuckles in their some place.

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