Pelle the Conqueror — Volume 01 by Martin Andersen Nexø
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"Pelle the Conqueror — Volume 01" by Martin Andersen Nexø is a Danish novel published in 1906. This first volume follows eight-year-old Pelle Karlsson as he immigrates from Sweden to Denmark in 1877, beginning a journey that will eventually lead him to become a labor movement leader. Based on Nexø's own experiences, this Bildungsroman chronicles one boy's struggles against poverty and poor working conditions in late nineteenth-century Scandinavia, capturing widespread social and
economic hardships of the era. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Andersen Nexø, Martin, 1869-1954 |
|---|---|
| Translator | Muir, Jessie |
| Title | Pelle the Conqueror — Volume 01 |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pelle_the_Conqueror_(novel) |
| Credits | Eric Eldred, Earle Beach and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 88.8 (6th grade). Easy to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PT: Language and Literatures: Germanic, Scandinavian, and Icelandic literatures |
| Subject | Fathers and sons -- Fiction |
| Subject | Immigrants -- Denmark -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 7791 |
| Release Date | Mar 1, 2005 |
| Last Update | Jul 7, 2021 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 448 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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