About the book: year / "The Kid" is the first publication of the French classic writer Alphonse Daudet (1840–1897) in large prose. The author called this novel, published in 1868, something “like an autobiography,” although some events are fictitious. The novel touches on the important theme of psychological maturation, which for the main character, a young man named Daniel Eiset, did not occur. He fully justified the nickname Baby, which was once given to him. Daniel, although formally an adult, remains a child at heart who needs to be cared for and guided. The people around him are partly to blame for this state of affairs, but partly it’s Daniel himself, who is comfortable being a Kid.