# Pelle the Conqueror, Volume 1

An audiobook by Martin Andersen Nexø, read by LibriVox volunteers (11 h 31 min, English).

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. "Pelle" consists of four parts, each, except perhaps the last, a complete story in itself. First we have the open-air life of the boy in country surroundings in Bornholm; then…

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## Chapters

1. 01 - Chapter I (49:55): https://archive.org/download/pelle_gw_librivox/pelletheconquerorvolume1_01_nexo_64kb.mp3
2. 02 - Chapter II (15:38): https://archive.org/download/pelle_gw_librivox/pelletheconquerorvolume1_02_nexo_64kb.mp3
3. 03 - Chapter III (57:36): https://archive.org/download/pelle_gw_librivox/pelletheconquerorvolume1_03_nexo_64kb.mp3
4. 04 - Chapter IV (37:39): https://archive.org/download/pelle_gw_librivox/pelletheconquerorvolume1_04_nexo_64kb.mp3
5. 05 - Chapter V (21:32): https://archive.org/download/pelle_gw_librivox/pelletheconquerorvolume1_05_nexo_64kb.mp3
6. 06 - Chapter VI (16:55): https://archive.org/download/pelle_gw_librivox/pelletheconquerorvolume1_06_nexo_64kb.mp3
7. 07 - Chapter VII (57:45): https://archive.org/download/pelle_gw_librivox/pelletheconquerorvolume1_07_nexo_64kb.mp3
8. 08 - Chapter VIII (19:45): https://archive.org/download/pelle_gw_librivox/pelletheconquerorvolume1_08_nexo_64kb.mp3
9. 09 - Chapter IX (19:39): https://archive.org/download/pelle_gw_librivox/pelletheconquerorvolume1_09_nexo_64kb.mp3
10. 10 - Chapter X (21:13): https://archive.org/download/pelle_gw_librivox/pelletheconquerorvolume1_10_nexo_64kb.mp3
11. 11 - Chapter XI (41:44): https://archive.org/download/pelle_gw_librivox/pelletheconquerorvolume1_11_nexo_64kb.mp3
12. 12 - Chapter XII (31:34): https://archive.org/download/pelle_gw_librivox/pelletheconquerorvolume1_12_nexo_64kb.mp3
13. 13 - Chapter XIII (25:12): https://archive.org/download/pelle_gw_librivox/pelletheconquerorvolume1_13_nexo_64kb.mp3
14. 14 - Chapter XIV (31:41): https://archive.org/download/pelle_gw_librivox/pelletheconquerorvolume1_14_nexo_64kb.mp3
15. 15 - Chapter XV (17:41): https://archive.org/download/pelle_gw_librivox/pelletheconquerorvolume1_15_nexo_64kb.mp3
16. 16 - Chapter XVI (12:46): https://archive.org/download/pelle_gw_librivox/pelletheconquerorvolume1_16_nexo_64kb.mp3
17. 17 - Chapter XVII (33:01): https://archive.org/download/pelle_gw_librivox/pelletheconquerorvolume1_17_nexo_64kb.mp3
18. 18 - Chapter XVIII (55:54): https://archive.org/download/pelle_gw_librivox/pelletheconquerorvolume1_18_nexo_64kb.mp3
19. 19 - Chapter XIX (19:23): https://archive.org/download/pelle_gw_librivox/pelletheconquerorvolume1_19_nexo_64kb.mp3
20. 20 - Chapter XX (18:21): https://archive.org/download/pelle_gw_librivox/pelletheconquerorvolume1_20_nexo_64kb.mp3
21. 21 - Chapter XXI (22:39): https://archive.org/download/pelle_gw_librivox/pelletheconquerorvolume1_21_nexo_64kb.mp3
22. 22 - Chapter XXII (34:16): https://archive.org/download/pelle_gw_librivox/pelletheconquerorvolume1_22_nexo_64kb.mp3
23. 23 - Chapter XXIII (15:51): https://archive.org/download/pelle_gw_librivox/pelletheconquerorvolume1_23_nexo_64kb.mp3
24. 24 - Chapter XXIV (13:08): https://archive.org/download/pelle_gw_librivox/pelletheconquerorvolume1_24_nexo_64kb.mp3