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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. Translated
into English in 1927 and here updated, the novel about
two gangs of boys fighting a war for a piece of land, a
derelict building site which to them is a cherished sym-
bol of freedom, is still the same fascinating story it was
nearly a century ago.
"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 exam-
ples 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...
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Fülszöveg
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. Translated
into English in 1927 and here updated, the novel about
two gangs of boys fighting a war for a piece of land, a
derelict building site which to them is a cherished sym-
bol of freedom, is still the same fascinating story it was
nearly a century ago.
"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 exam-
ples 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."
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.
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