| In this eight-disc set, an abridgement of the book of the same name and the first of three volumes, Simon Schama retells the creation of modern Britain. |
| The present book is an abridgement of Congar's massive two-volume work on tradition, and is highly recommended for both personal study and classroom use. |
| Other times they shorten what has to be read through abridgement and synthesis. |
| Michael produced an abridgement of Manning Clark's A History of Australia, published by Melbourne University Press and Penguin. |
| Not even Balzac was too great for abridgement, carped the critics. |
| The sources, however, have disappeared in the severe abridgement which has reduced the lexicon to a glossary, copious though that remains. |
