This powerful novel by Martin Andersen Nex is a gripping portrait of the struggles and triumphs of the Danish working class in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Following the lives of a group of factory workers in Copenhagen, Nex 's book offers a vivid and moving account of poverty, oppression, and social revolution, and remains a classic of Danish literature. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and...