Pelle The Conqueror

Author : Martin Andersen Nexø
Publisher : Standard Ebooks
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1364 pages
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Download or read book Pelle the Conqueror written by Martin Andersen Nexø and published by Standard Ebooks. This book was released on 2021-07-07T22:51:27Z with total page 1364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pelle is still just a young boy when his father decides to move them from Sweden to the Danish island of Bornholm in search of riches. Those riches—of course—being nonexistent, they fall into the life of farm laborers. As Pelle grows up among the other lowly and poor residents of the island, their cares and worries seep into him, and he finds himself part of a greater struggle for their dignity. Pelle the Conqueror has been compared to Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables in its themes and scope. Nexø had become involved in the Social Democratic movement in Denmark that flourished after the turn of the 19th century, and this work closely follows his journalistic observations of the struggles of the people. It was published in four books between 1906 and 1910, and was immensely popular; the first book in particular is still widely read in Danish schools, and was made in to an award-winning 1987 film starring Max von Sydow as Father Lasse. In this Standard Ebooks edition books one and four are translated by Jesse Muir, while books two and three are translated by Bernard Miall. This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.

Author : Martin Andersen Nexø
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 452 pages
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Author : Martin Andersen Nexø
Publisher : Mondial
ISBN 13 : 159569028X
Total Pages : 822 pages
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Download or read book Pelle the Conqueror (Complete Edition) written by Martin Andersen Nexø and published by Mondial. This book was released on 2006 with total page 822 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Complete edition (Parts I to IV): I. Boyhood; II. Apprenticeship; III. The Great Struggle; IV. Daybreak. Martin Andersen Nexo (1869-1954) was born in the slums of Copenhagen into extreme poverty. He was the fourth of eleven children. His father, a stone mason, was an alcoholic and his mother was a daughter of a blacksmith. When he was eight, the family moved to the town of Nexo on the island of Bornholm, whose name he adopted in 1894 as his own. His breakthrough work, the Danish classic Pelle the Conqueror, appeared between 1906 (Part I) and 1910 (Part IV). It tells the story of Pelle, a poor boy, whose life in Part I shares much similarities with Nexø's. "The great charm of the book lies in the fact that the writer knows the poor from within; he has not studied them as an outsider may, but has lived with them and felt with them, at once a participant and a keen-eyed spectator. He is no sentimentalist, and so rich is his imagination that he passes on rapidly from one scene to the next, sketching often in a few pages what another novelist would be content to work out into long chapters or whole volumes. His sympathy is of the widest, and he makes us see tragedies behind the little comedies, and comedies behind the little tragedies, of the seemingly sordid lives of the working people whom he loves." (Otto Jespersen) "Pelle" has conquered the hearts of the reading public of Denmark and of the world. The first part of the book was filmed by Bille August; in 1989 the film won the Academy Award as Best Foreign Language Film.

Author : Martin Anderson Nexo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780844613260
Total Pages : pages
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Author : Martin Anderson Nexo
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781500410155
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Author : Martin Andersen Nexø
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 368 pages
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Author : Martin Andersen Nexø
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Total Pages : 292 pages
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Total Pages : 368 pages
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Author : Martin Anderson Nexo
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781407645872
Total Pages : 252 pages
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Publisher : Gale Cengage Learning
ISBN 13 : 1410355195
Total Pages : 28 pages
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