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Chamberlain, The New York Times Book Review

(.) Bambi, for instance, is a better book than Green Mansions, and that is praise of the highest." - John R.

His observation is next door to marvelous, and he invests the fruit of this observation with pure poetry. He has the gift of a tender, lucid style.

"Felix Salten, in Bambi, takes you out of yourself.

"The tale, which in English was thinly supported by its intrinsic interest takes on, in' French, a sort of fabulous quality, so that the peaceful air of the novel is invested with extraneous charms, Aside, then, from the unavoidable graces and happinesses with which literate French can invest anything, the story is still a placid, somewhat dull little account of the many afternoons of a fawn." - Paul Horgan, Books Abroad.

Bambi was also famously made into an animated film by Walt Disney in 1942Ī- : very nicely done (though also rather dark).

Previously translated by Whittaker Chambers (1928), and by Jack Zipes (as The Original Bambi) (2022).

Serialized in 1922, and first published in book-form in 1923.

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