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| | Felix Salten: Deer Bambi |
 | | Immediately popular in Austria, the book reached the United States in 1928, in a translation by Whittaker Chambers (who twenty years later was the chief accuser in the Alger Hiss case, which brought Richard Nixon to national prominence). |
 | | Bambi is a classic coming-of-age novel, following a deer from birth (the name is based on the Italian bambino, meaning baby) to adulthood, realistically depicting the danger and harshness of nature and, especially, the looming cruelty of man the hunter. |
 | | In the United States, German novelist Thomas Mann had brought Bambi to the attention of Walt Disney, who spent five years painstakingly refashioning Salten's novel into a memorable, heartrending animated film that premiered in London on August 8, 1942 and in the United States on August 13, 1942. |
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