Pelle the Conqueror, Volume 1

By Nexo, Martin Anderson

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Title:	Pelle the Conqueror, Volume 1
Author:	Nexo, Martin Anderson
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Language:	English
Subject:	Literature & thought, Literature and history, Literature & philosophy
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When the first part of ?Pelle Erobreren? (Pelle the Conqueror) appeared in 1906, its author, Martin Andersen Nexo, was practically unknown even in his native country, save to a few literary people who knew that he had written some volumes of stories and a book full of sunshiny reminiscences from Spain. And even now, after his great success with ?Pelle,? very little is known about the writer. He was born in 1869 in one of the poorest quarters of Copenhagen, but spent his boyhood in his beloved island Bornholm, in the Baltic, in or near the town, Nexo, from which his final name is derived. There, too, he was a shoemaker?s apprentice, like Pelle in the second part of the book, which resembles many great novels in being largely autobiographical. Later, he gained his livelihood as a bricklayer, until he somehow managed to get to one of the most renowned of our ?people?s high-schools,? where he studied so effectually that he was enabled to become a teacher, first at a provincial school, and later in Copenhagen.