In my 20th century British novel class, we read Bridehead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh.
Slight problems have arisen because I have the American version of the text and the rest of my class is working off the British. In preparing to write my essay, I have found that two crucial sections are different: when Charles describes his first sexual encounter with Julia and when (in the British version) he and Celia sleep toghther.
At least I think so. I’m a bit confused. I don’t have access to the British version, so I was hoping someone could come in here with a text an home and help me sort out the differences. I have the quotes for the first scene I talked about from both editions, but I’m not even sure that I’m not looking at the wrong place for the second one.
I’m not even sure which one came first… the site I’ve been trying to work off of, A Companion to Brideshead Revisited, says (I think) that the American one is the original, and the British the revision.
I’ve been puttering around on Google a bit, and I’m reading it as the 1945 version is the American edition, and the 1960 revision is the British.
I’ve got a 1945 edition (says “copyright 1944, 1945”) here in my lap, and it was published by Little, Brown & Company in Boston.
I’m not familiar with the differences between the two, but why in the world is your prof having his class study what are essentially two different books? 
When an author goes back and revises his own book 15 years after he wrote it, to my mind it counts as an entirely different book. At any rate, it’s hardly fair to have you using a different edition. What gives?
If your prof knows that you have a different edition, and he doesn’t see it as a problem, then maybe it’s not a problem. Just go ahead and write your essay with the edition you have and don’t worry about whether it jibes with the British, later, edition.
Well, it’s not really his fault. The edition he put in the bookstore is the British and all the same, but I already owned a copy (of what turned out to be American). A lot of my essay is based around a couple of scenes we talked about in class… That were different in the British edition.
It just sucks to be me, I suppose 
Sooooo…go down to the bookstore and peek at one of the British editions, see how it’s different?
Or even buy one? 
or am i missing something here? There’s no law that says people will think you’re a stuckup East Coast intellectual pantywaist prig if they find out that you own both editions of Brideshead Revisited
At least, I won’t