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This sort of feels like I should have read it at the same time as Dracula, Frankenstein, Phantom etc, but I also think I would have found the 35 pages of digression infuriating. Like Gulliver, or Treasure Island, it’s a book whose adaptations make you think “kids’ book?” and yet it’s hard to imagine kids actually enjoying it.