How Long to Read Pelle the Conqueror (Complete Edition)

How Long Does it Take to Read Pelle the Conqueror (Complete Edition)?

It takes the average reader 13 hours and 40 minutes to read Pelle the Conqueror (Complete Edition) by Martin Anderson Nexo

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

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.

How long is Pelle the Conqueror (Complete Edition)?

Pelle the Conqueror (Complete Edition) by Martin Anderson Nexo is 820 pages long, and a total of 205,000 words.

This makes it 277% the length of the average book. It also has 251% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Pelle the Conqueror (Complete Edition) Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 18 hours and 40 minutes to read Pelle the Conqueror (Complete Edition) aloud.

What Reading Level is Pelle the Conqueror (Complete Edition)?

Pelle the Conqueror (Complete Edition) is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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