Légy jó mindhalálig

by Zsigmond Móricz

"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.