![]() With captivating drawings by award-winning artist Alenka Sottler, The Original Bambi captures the emotional impact and rich meanings of a celebrated story. Jack Zipes’s introduction traces the history of the book’s reception and explores the tensions that Salten experienced in his own life-as a hunter who also loved animals, and as an Austrian Jew who sought acceptance in Viennese society even as he faced persecution. ![]() Life in the forest is dangerous and precarious, and Bambi learns important lessons about survival as he grows to become a strong, heroic stag. Originally published in 1923, Salten’s story is more somber than the adaptations that followed it. This masterful new translation gives contemporary readers a fresh perspective on this moving allegorical tale and provides important details about its creator. For decades, readers’ images of Bambi have been shaped by the 1942 Walt Disney film-an idealized look at a fawn who represents nature’s innocence-which was based on a 1928 English translation of a novel by the Austrian Jewish writer Felix Salten. ![]() ![]() Most of us think we know the story of Bambi -but do we? The Original Bambi is an all-new, illustrated translation of a literary classic that presents the story as it was meant to be told. ![]()
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