The Paul Street Boys (A Pál utcai fiúk)

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Szerző-Author: Molnár Ferenc

A true world classic of its kind.

The novel is about two gangs of boys fighting a war for a piece of land, a derelict building site which to them is a cherished symbol of freedom, is still the same fascinating story it was nearly a century ago.

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Típus-Type: antikvár
Állapot-Condition: like new
Kiadó-Publisher: Corvina, 1994
Nyelv-Language: english
Oldalszám-Pages: 208
Kötés-Binding: soft cover
Azonosító-Item number: 24-181-1
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Leírás

Ferenc Molnár (1878-1952) is perhaps best known in the world for his brilliant drawing room comedies such as The Swan and The Guardsman. But in Hungary it was his novel for young people, The Paul Street Boys (1907), which insured his lasting popularity.

„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 cameraderie, 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.”