This edition was written and originally published in England. Edith Robarts also adapted for children a number of other "classics," including Gulliver's Travels, Robinson Crusoe and, surprisingly, since it was already a children's book, Alice in Wonderland. Her abridgement of Stowe's novel separates the two plot lines, telling the story of Eliza, Harry and George Harris' flight north in Chapters 1 - 3 (and ending it with the family "safe under the protection of the glorious English flag"). Tom's story is told more quickly in Chapters 4 -5, and with almost no reference to its religious dimension. One interesting thematic emphasis that emerges from Robarts' revisions is that, although the narrator severly condemns "the people in the South" for owning slaves, the text gives Mrs. Shelby more immunity from that indictment than even Stowe does; for example, in this version Mrs. Shelby tries to fulfill her promise to ransom Tom just "a month" after Mr. Shelby dies and she and George assume control of the plantation.