Pelle the Conqueror — Volume 01 by Martin Andersen Nexø

"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
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EBook-No. 7791
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Most Recently Updated Jul 7, 2021
Copyright Status Public domain in the USA.
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