21. He called that an absolute abridgment of the people's rights . . .. 22. Brannigan explained the process of abridgment : " What they do is prioritize characters. 23. They perceive a windbag novelist whose corpulent prose epics are palatable nowadays only in abridgments . 24. Elsewhere, Mussorgsky made abridgments and additions. 25. I always had a sort of basic dislike of abridgment , but now I know why. 26. Sounds simple enough, but abridgment is the most controversial aspect of spoken-word audio. 27. This helps the abridgment be less driven by plot and allows room for more character development. 28. And the abridgment is the same. 29. There are also indications that the present work is an abridgment of a significantly larger work. 30. In America, Houghton Mifflin secured the rights to the Dugdale abridgment on 29 July 1933.