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    A Study Guide for Martin Andersen Nexo's "Pelle the Conqueror"
    A Study Guide for Martin Andersen Nexo's "Pelle the Conqueror"
    A Study Guide for Martin Andersen Nexo's "Pelle the Conqueror"
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    A Study Guide for Martin Andersen Nexo's "Pelle the Conqueror"

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    A Study Guide for Martin Andersen Nexo's "Pelle the Conqueror," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateJun 27, 2016
    ISBN9781535830737
    A Study Guide for Martin Andersen Nexo's "Pelle the Conqueror"

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      A Study Guide for Martin Andersen Nexo's "Pelle the Conqueror" - Gale

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      Pelle the Conqueror

      Martin Andersen Nexø

      1906-1910

      Introduction

      Pelle the Conqueror is a novel in four volumes by Danish author Martin Andersen Nexø. Volume 1, Boyhood, was published in 1906; Volume 2, Apprenticeship, appeared in 1907, followed by Volume 3, The Great Struggle, in 1909 and Volume 4, Daybreak, in 1910. An English translation by Jessie Muir and Bernard Miall was published between 1913 and 1916. This translation was reprinted in one volume by Mondial in 1990, and it remains in print.

      Pelle the Conqueror tells the story of Pelle Karlsson, who immigrates with his father from Sweden to the Danish island of Bornholm in 1877. Pelle is then eight years old, and the novel follows his life into adolescence and adulthood. When he is eighteen he goes to Copenhagen on the Danish mainland and eventually becomes a leader in the labor movement at a time when living and working conditions for the working classes in the heavily industrialized city are extremely poor.

      Much of the novel draws on Nexø's own experiences. He was born in Kristianshavn, the Copenhagen slum where his fictional hero Pelle lives when he first moves to Copenhagen. As a boy, Nexø lived on the island of Bornholm, and like Pelle, he was apprenticed to a shoemaker.

      Pelle the Conqueror is not very well known in the English-speaking world, but it tells a stirring tale. Not only is it a coming-of-age story about a likeable and capable young man, it also shows in vivid detail the rise of the labor movement and of socialist ways of thinking that played such a large role in Danish as well as many other European societies during the course of the twentieth century.

      Author Biography

      Martin Andersen (he added Nexø to his name in 1894) was born in Kristianshavn, a poor area of Copenhagen, Denmark, on June 26, 1869, to Hans and Mathilde Jorgen. His father was a stonemason. In 1877 the family moved to Nexø, a coastal town on the island of Bornholm. When he was fifteen, Nexø was apprenticed to a shoemaker for six years. He attended high schools on Bornholm and in Jutland, on the mainland, obtained a teaching certificate, and began to teach at a school in Odense in 1893. However, he became ill with tuberculosis and traveled to Italy and Spain to recover his health. In 1898 he married Margarete Thomsen, and in the same year published his first book, Shadows, a collection of short stories. In 1901, he quit teaching in Copenhagen to become a full-time writer. Five years later he published the first volume of Pelle the Conqueror; the fourth and final volume appeared in 1910. This proved to be his most popular and well-known work.

      Always politically minded, Nexø joined the Danish Social Democratic Party in 1910. By 1918, however, he had become disillusioned with the Social Democrats and resigned from the party. Later he would join the Danish Communist Party. His next novel, Ditte, Humanity's Child (1917-21), was about the failure of the Social Democrats to do anything for the very poor.

      In the early 1920s Nexø traveled to the Soviet Union, and from 1923 to 1930 he lived in Germany. His first marriage had ended in divorce in 1913; a second marriage ended in 1924, and in the following year, 1925, Nexø married his third wife, Johanna May.

      During World War II Denmark was occupied by Germany. Nexø was arrested

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