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* TheTwilightSaga was originally supposed to be two books long, going straight from Twilight to Breaking Dawn. (Then called Forever Dawn.) It was Stephenie Meyer's editor who suggested that Bella's senior year be drawn out, resulting in New Moon and Eclipse. (It was also suggested that Forever Dawn was "inappropriate" for young adult audiences, though.)
* Literature/TheJungle was subjected to this by Doubleday. The original edition published by the socialist newspaper ''Appeal to Reason'' was singularly focused on the hell the main characters, an immigrant family, go through because they are poor, are not fluent in English, and because the businessmen run everything and was obviously meant to make readers see the horrors of wage slavery. Doubleday, however, was a corporation, and it therefore didn't take too kindly to Literature/TheJungle's criticism of corporations and the ways in which they exploited their workers. They forced him to make the family less ethnic, amend some passages so that their lives were not so unfair, and make the passages about the tainted food more graphic. Most people read Doubleday's edition and they were singularly focused on the unsanitary conditions of the factories making food products and the book is now taught as an exposure of the corruption that led to tainted food. The only hint that American history textbooks will give as to the disparity between Sinclair's intentions and the public's response is his quote "I aimed at the public's heart and by accident hit its stomach."

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* ''TheTwilightSaga'' was originally supposed to be two books long, going straight from Twilight to Breaking Dawn. (Then called Forever Dawn.) It was Stephenie Meyer's editor who suggested that Bella's senior year be drawn out, resulting in New Moon and Eclipse. (It was also suggested that Forever Dawn was "inappropriate" for young adult audiences, though.)
* ''Literature/TheJungle'' was subjected to this by Doubleday. The original edition published by the socialist newspaper ''Appeal to Reason'' was singularly focused on the hell the main characters, an immigrant family, go through because they are poor, are not fluent in English, and because the businessmen run everything and was obviously meant to make readers see the horrors of wage slavery. Doubleday, however, was a corporation, and it therefore didn't take too kindly to ''The Jungle'''s criticism of corporations and the ways in which they exploited their workers. They forced him to make the family less ethnic, amend some passages so that their lives were not so unfair, and make the passages about the tainted food more graphic. Most people read Doubleday's edition and they were singularly focused on the unsanitary conditions of the factories making food products and the book is now taught as an exposure of the corruption that led to tainted food. The only hint that American history textbooks will give as to the disparity between Sinclair's intentions and the public's response is his quote "I aimed at the public's heart and by accident hit its stomach."

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* ''TheLordOfTheRings'' was actually the result of ExecutiveMeddling. After the success of ''Literature/TheHobbit'', Tolkien was asked to write a sequel. His first choice was the tales of the Elder Days he had been working on in various states of development since WorldWarI, and would eventually become ''TheSilmarillion''. His publisher, however, insisted that the new story have more about hobbits. The end result was reediting ''The Hobbit'' to fit it into Middle-earth and connect it to the larger Legendarium, and the writing of the [[TropeMaker defining work of modern]] EpicFantasy.
* JamesEllroy was asked to cut his 900 page White Jazz in half, by the publishers. Their intention was, presumably, that he cut a couple of subplots, and not, as he did, take out pretty much all words that weren't absolutely vital to understanding the sentence, resulting in a quick, telegraph-like staccato style, for example, "Time revoked/fever dreams-I wake up reaching, afraid I'll forget. Pictures keep the woman young. L.A., fall 1958. Newsprint: link the dots. Names, events-so brutal they beg to be connected. Years down-the story stays dispersed.".

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