title: A Forest World (Bambi's Classic Animal Tales)
author: Felix Salten
description: Felix Salten (18691945) was an Austrian author and critic in Vienna. His most famous work is <i>Bambi</i>.
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  By FELIX SALTEN
  FOREWORD BY
  JOHN GALSWORTHY
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  GROSSET & DUNLAP
  Publishers
  NEW YORK
  
  all rights reserved
  Copyright,
  1929, by Simon and Schuster,
  Inc.
  TRANSLATED BY
  WHITTAKER CHAMBERS
  ILLUSTRATIONS BY
  KURT WIESE
  P2-J
  MADE LN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
  
  FOREWORD
  BAMBI
  is a delicious book. For delicacy of perception
  and essential truth I hardly know any story of animals
  that can stand beside
  this
  life study of a
  forest deer.
  Felix Salten
  is a poet. He feels nature deeply, and he
  loves animals. I do not, as a rule, like the method which
  places human words in the mouths of dumb creatures,
  and it is the triumph of this book that, behind the con-
  versation, one feels the real sensations of the creatures
  who speak. Clear and illuminating, and in places very
  moving, it is a little masterpiece.
  I read
  it in galley proof on the way from Paris to
  Calais, before
  a channel crossing. As
  I
  finished each
  shee