The publication VALUES IN LITERATURE AND IN THE CONTEMPORARY READING (HODNOTY V LITERATUŘE A V SOUČASNÉM ČTENÁŘSTVÍ) represents a collective monograph of four authors who specialize in various spheres of the Czech literature and present results of their research in this way. All of the authors are members of the Department of Czech Language and Literature with Didactics of the Pedagogical Faculty, University of Ostrava, which concentrates on education of future teachers of the 1st and 2nd grades of elementary schools. They focus on both specialist and personal profiles of the teacher training or philological scope of their students in the fields of the Czech literature and didactics. Within the individual chapters of this publication, they follow their previous research presented earlier at various specialist symposia and in numerous proceedings or periodicals. Here they delve into these topics in a more complex way.