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Ditte: Girl Alive

Novel depicting a girl's hard journey from poverty through servitude toward survival and hope

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Martin Andersen Nexo
Martin Andersen Nexo

Danish author who was the first great proletarian novelist in Scandinavian literature. His Pelle the Conqueror tetralogy follows a Swedish immigrant boy from poverty to labor movement leadership.

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