Ramed had never been entirely certain just how the original, unexpurgated text had wound up in the hands of his family.

A new translation by Susan Massotty based on the unexpurgated text was published in 1995.

The purpose of this edition is only to give the full, unexpurgated text of the tales as they finally stand.

The same text, unexpurgated, is at the Boston University library.

When the unexpurgated text of the letters finally appeared, they proved to be so wildly pornographic, so exhaustively scatological, that reviewers were hard put even to paraphrase their substance.

But the excerpts that biographers have printed pale in comparison to the unexpurgated texts that are scheduled to go on public display at Sotheby's York Avenue headquarters on Friday.

For this debate, the script was compiled by Harold Holzer, a historian who said he has produced the first unexpurgated text.

Contrary to the pre-opening information released by the theater, the Hartford Stage version is not Mr. Albee's complete, unexpurgated text, and thank Mr. Albee for that.

Is it possible to buy the unexpurgated text from an independent bookseller, or has ASDA's decision been enforced everywhere?

"The unexpurgated text," says a red band on the jacket of a new edition of "Sons and Lovers."