Felix Salten a Forest Family" (1939). His stories "Perri" and "The Hound of Florence" inspired the Disney films "Perri" (1957) and "The Shaggy Dog" (1959), respectively. Salten is now considered to be the anonymous author of a witty, full of social criticism, celebrated erotic novel, "Josephine Mutzenbacher: The Life Story of a Viennese Whore, as Told by Herself" (1906). Felix Salten Felix Salten (; 6 September 1869 – 8 October 1945) was an Austrian author and critic in Vienna. His most famous work is "Bambi, a Life in the Woods" (1923). Salten was born Siegmund Salzmann in Pest, Austria-Hungary, the grandson of
The Hound of Florence 2016 includes both endings. The Hound of Florence The Hound of Florence: A Novel () is a 1923 novel written by Felix Salten. It is best known today for partly inspiring (and even mentioned in) the 1959 Walt Disney Pictures film, "The Shaggy Dog", as well as a sequel and remakes. The novel was first translated into English in 1930 by Huntley Paterson, and the translation has illustrations by Kurt Wiese. "The Hound of Florence" is an adventure story for young readers, set in early eighteenth-century Austria and Italy. The adolescent Lukas Grassi has lost his parents and lives in