Between all the 本 I’ll tackle in this series, Alice in Wonderland (correctly Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland) is a very special case. Because, if あなた ask me: This book is not translatable and it is not adaptable. I don’t even think that the common English reader nowadays should read it without a ton of footnotes added to the original text, because it is full of in-jokes and references to a very specific time in British history. I doubt that many people even know, why the Hatter, the March 野ウサギ, うさぎ and the Cheshire Cat are mad (and if あなた don’t know either, あなた just proved my point...
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