As Salten’s most famous novel, Bambi, gives voice to animals inhabiting a rich forest, among which namesake Bambi, a curious and endearing roe deer fawn whose life we follow from birth to mature age.

If you thought it was rough to see Bambi's mother die in the 1942 Disney film, you should read the original story. Before it became an animated classic movie for children, "Bambi" was a 1922 novel by ...