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Bakonja fra Brne is a novel published in 1892 by Simo Matavulj. The plot is set in Dalmatinska Zagora around 1870, and the title character is a young man who, following the family tradition, becomes one of the Franciscan monks in the Visovac monastery.
The novel humorously and warmly depicts the everyday life of a fourteen-year-old boy, Olfi (Wolfgang), the only man in a house full of women. A classic of Austrian children's literature, it is often read in elementary school.
Cecil Day Lewis' novel The Otterbury Affair is a suspenseful crime story about a group of boys who solve crimes in their small town. It explores courage, friendship, and justice through a blend of adventure and detective intrigue.
The selection of titles of selected high school reading offered in this way is threefold in its thematic focus, which is seen in Proust in the old world, in Sholokhov in the new life, and in Kafka in the unreliable sign of man.