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Significant stages in Odour of Chrysanthemums have been identified, and each 'episode' has been given a number and a name. These episodes are essentially subjective notions but they allow a staged and manageable approach to the texts and their analysis.

Choose from the following list of episodes to compare different versions side-by-side. Three of these episodes offer guided comparisons, which highlight the changes.

	Uncorrected proofs (1910) compared with English Review (1911)	English Review (1911) compared with The Prussian Officer (1914)
1. Opening	Guided comparison	Guided comparison
2. The Father	View	View
3. The Children	Guided comparison	Guided comparison
4. Visit to the Rigleys	Guided comparison	Guided comparison
5. Arrival of the Mother	View	View
6. Return of the Body	View	View
7. Washing of the Body	View	View
8. Ending	View	View

Notes on the guided comparisons

Close textual comparison and coding of the different and developing versions of the story must inevitably be similarly subjective, at least to some extent. The following, therefore, are the general principles which have been adopted when comparing three of the versions: Uncorrected proofs, 1910, as reproduced in Boulton 1969 (Version A); English Review, 1911 (Version C); The Prussian Officer 1914 (Version D).

The versions have been coded in pairs, A with C and C with D
Deleted material is marked as red (a red mark indicates the corresponding point in the later version).
New material is marked as blue (a blue mark indicates the corresponding point in the earlier version).
Other changes to the material are marked as yellow (where there is a reworking of what appears to be essentially similar content between the two versions being compared).

Differences in punctuation between versions (deletions, additions and changes) have, in the main, been included in the coding. Differences which may be presumed to be errors (e.g. colourd in Version C, page 421, line 23) have not been coded.