Direction: Classics are works of enduring excellence, judged over a period of time to be of the highest quality. The world they recreate serves as an anchor to the past, preventing us from deviating too far from the values, traditions and morals that have come to define the best of human society. If making a literary work more ‘current’ involves corrupting it, should we not think twice about doing so? Modern society may already have hit rock bottom, there is no need to dig deeper and erode the little decency that remains. And what is the use of making a classic more ‘accessible’ if it results in losing the subtle charm, appeal, and charisma of the original? If the magic is lost, the young reader today will see little reason to explore the classic anyway. And the claim that the modifications will preserve the original’s beauty doesn’t seem convincing. This is not to say that the classics are devoid of sensuality. However, it is conveyed through subtlety, delicacy and restraint-where what is not said is just as important as what is, and where good taste and decency triumphs over needlessly lurid prose. This is something that society today needs more of meaningful entertainment that broadens the consumer’s horizons and improves his outlook. Otherwise, all sense and sensibility will be gone with the wind!.