My overall question, how do I obtain an original copy or verified digital copy?
More: I seen the Disney animated version of The Fox & the Hound growing up and recently started the movie again. Around 5 minutes into the “cartoon” movie I thought “what was the source of creation” and I typed The Fox and the Hound book into Google. A wiki link took me to the Daniel Mannix version and first thing I looked for was number of pages, which was like 200+. My reaction was “cool, 200+ pages, so it’s not just a Disney 20page book”. My next step was looking on Google for Mannix’s version of the book to buy and it’s going FOR $500!!!
I’m going to do more research into this but explain and link anything you want to this post. If a book like that was destroyed physically, digitally and “reputation” wise (meaning money and power spent to cover it up) we need to get it popularized again and digital copies made.
by qwk22
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If I remember correctly it was a readers digest condensed book many years ago.
I have read it in its entirety and will say it is wildly different from the movie. There was some serious Disneyfication done to the book.
I went to my local library and requested it through inter library loan. Had to be shipped from out of state, so I paid $7 but that’s a whole lot better than paying the prices for used copies.
Consider this your fair warning, if you grew up on the Disney version, you may want to avoid the Mannix version. It’s very old school, and in the ‘Where the Red Fern Grows’ and ‘The Yearling’ tradition. I’m still kind of traumatized by it and that’s not much of an exaggeration.