Pelle the Conqueror

Martin Andersen Nexø

Casa editrice: Passerino

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Pelle the Conqueror is a Danish novel written by Martin Andersen Nexø. 
The novel follows the character Pelle Karlsson, who immigrates to Denmark from Sweden in 1877 at age eight. At 18, he moves from Bornholm to Copenhagen, and becomes a leader in the labour movement in Denmark, motivated by poor working conditions.

Martin Andersen Nexø (26 June 1869 – 1 June 1954) was a Danish writer. He was one of the authors in the Modern Breakthrough movement in Danish art and literature. He was a socialist throughout his life and during the Second World War moved to the Soviet Union, and afterwards to Dresden in East Germany.

Translated from the Danish by Jessie Muir and Bernard Miall.

Disponibile da: 23/01/2025.

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