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    How many issues of Readers Digest were used for its condensed version of The Ugly American?

    Question #104077. Asked by romeomikegolf. (Mar 22 09 11:42 PM)


    Midget40

    		I cant find any reference to it being issued in the actual Readers digest issues. I will continue to look.

    It was published in the Readers Digest Condensed Books ion Volume 36.

    Volume 36 - Winter 1959

    The Admen - Shepherd Mead
    The Rainbow and the Rose - Nevil Shute
    Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris - Paul Gallico
    The Ugly American - Wm. J. Lederer & Eugene Burdick
    The White Room - Elizabeth Coatsworth
    Woman of Straw - Catherine Arley

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reader's_Digest_Condensed_Books



    Mar 23 09, 12:06 AM
    zbeckabee

    		Tough question! I'm not finding much, but if memory serves me correctly -- The Reader's Digest Magazine did publish books in "installment" form:

    "...it was the USA edition of the Reader's Digest
    magazine in which I originally read the book I am looking for."

    http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=207119

    Mar 23 09, 5:46 AM

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