Wikipedia page about this book: https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyilas_Misi

Release date is 2022-01-10

Albert László from page images generously made available by the Hungarian Electronic Library

"Légy jó mindhalálig" by Zsigmond Móricz is a novel set in 1892. Eleven-year-old Misi Nyilas, a top student at a Reformed college in Debrecen, comes from an impoverished family but earns respect through his intelligence and integrity. When he loses a lottery receipt entrusted to him, the honest boy becomes trapped in a web of lies and adult intrigues. Facing a tribunal that threatens to destroy him, Misi confronts human cruelty and injustice while clinging to his belief in goodness. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

Originally published: Hungary: Athenaeum, 1921