The Paul Street Boys (A Pál utcai fiúk)

”At the time Ferenc Molnár wrote The Paul Street Boys, Cooper’s Indian war-stories were extremely popular in Hungary and there is the flavour of their morality in this book,” writes Mátyás Sárközi, Molnár’s grandson, in his Preface to the present edition. ”There are examples of good camaraderie, loyalty, idealism, but Molnár always manages to save himself from being just a shade too sentimental. Like Mark Twain he has the wit and the good writer’s sense to mix the grotesque with the pathetic.”
A true world classic of its kind, The Paul Street Boys, which has been out of print for decades, is a juvenile classic that has lost none of its magic.