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"Bambi" by Felix Salten

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Publisher: International Collectors Library Binding: Victorian Replica Binding Pages: 191 Illustrator: Girard Goodenow Original Publish Date: 1923 Country: Austria Genre: Children's Fiction Full Title: Bambi, a Life in the Woods Synopsis: "The novel traces the life of Bambi, a male roe deer, from his birth through childhood, the loss of his mother, the finding of a mate, the lessons he learns from his father and experience about the dangers posed by human hunters in the forest." -Wikipedia Fun Fact: Bambi was banned in Nazi Germany in 1936 as "political allegory on the treatment of Jews in Europe." - Wikipedia

"The Scarlet Pimpernel" by Baroness Orczy

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Publisher: International Collectors Library Binding: Victorian Replica Binding Pages: 256 Original Publish Date: 1905 Country: United Kingdom Genre: Historical Fiction Synopsis: "The mysterious master of disguise known as the Scarlet Pimpernel is, without doubt, one of the greatest swashbuckling heros of all time. In Paris, he defies the "Reign of Terror" to snatch doomed aristocrats from the very shadow of the Guillotine and whisk them to sanctuary in England. 'The demmed elusive Pimpernel' is a phantom that the agents of the Tribunal of Public Safety will do anything--kidnap, blackmail, even murder--to capture.    "In London the Pimpernel is Sir Percy Blakeney, as foppish and foolish an English 'Milford' as ever danced a minuet. While cutting a charmingly ridiculous figure at Court, Sir Percy secretly directs a gallant league of adventurers in their campaign against the Terror. Not even his wife, the brilliant and beautiful Fre...