[Next project] The Peasants by W. Reymont

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Szymon Szott

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Sep 22, 2025, 1:20:30 PMSep 22
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Hi!


As my next project I’d like to tackle The Peasants by Władysław Reymont (translated by Michael H. Dziewicki). Earlier this year, CT let me know that he’s been working on this for PGDP and all four volumes are now available:

Vol 1, Autumn: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/75846

Vol 2, Winter: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76328

Vol 3, Spring: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76330

Vol 4, Summer: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76329


Here are the scans:

https://archive.org/details/peasantsautumn0000ladi

https://archive.org/details/peasantswinter0000ladi/

https://archive.org/details/peasantsspring0000ladi

https://archive.org/details/peasantssummer0000ladi_w8g0/


Here’s my repo:
https://github.com/SzymonSzott/wladyslaw-reymont_the-peasants_michael-henry-dziewicki


My questions:

  1. Any tips on merging the four volumes? Any similar SE productions which I can consider as reference?

  2. Do we keep the publisher’s note?

  3. Do we keep the footnotes (Translator’s Notes)?


Szymon


Robin Whittleton

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Sep 22, 2025, 1:27:42 PMSep 22
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I merged the four Pelle the Conqueror volumes into one, see https://github.com/standardebooks/martin-andersen-nexo_pelle-the-conqueror_jessie-muir_bernard-miall. That was a little trickier as the different books had different translators.

For the publisher’s note, as it’s the same in every volume it’s easy to bring to the front as a single note. I’d say it’s probably worth keeping?

For footnotes, yep, migrate them to an endnotes as per usual. You can mark the translator up with an `ann` role, and leave out the “—Translator’s Note” if they’re all from him.

-Robin

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Alex Cabal

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Sep 22, 2025, 2:04:18 PMSep 22
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OK, Robin will manage this with Vince reviewing.

On 9/22/25 12:20 PM, Szymon Szott wrote:
> Hi!
>
>
> As my next project I’d like to tackle The Peasants by Władysław Reymont
> (translated by Michael H. Dziewicki). Earlier this year, CT let me know
> that he’s been working on this for PGDP and all four volumes are now
> available:
>
> Vol 1, Autumn: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/75846 <https://
> www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/75846>
>
> Vol 2, Winter: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76328 <https://
> www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76328>
>
> Vol 3, Spring: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76330 <https://
> www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76330>
>
> Vol 4, Summer: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76329 <https://
> www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76329>
> details/peasantsautumn0000ladi>
>
> https://archive.org/details/peasantswinter0000ladi/ <https://
> archive.org/details/peasantswinter0000ladi/>
>
> https://archive.org/details/peasantsspring0000ladi <https://archive.org/
> details/peasantsspring0000ladi>
>
> https://archive.org/details/peasantssummer0000ladi_w8g0/ <https://
> archive.org/details/peasantssummer0000ladi_w8g0/>
> henry-dziewicki <https://github.com/SzymonSzott/wladyslaw-reymont_the-
> peasants_michael-henry-dziewicki>
>
>
> My questions:
>
> 1.
>
> Any tips on merging the four volumes? Any similar SE productions
> which I can consider as reference?
>
> 2.
>
> Do we keep the publisher’s note?
>
> 3.
>
> Do we keep the footnotes (Translator’s Notes)?
>
>
> Szymon
>
>
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Szymon Szott

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Sep 28, 2025, 4:10:04 AM (11 days ago) Sep 28
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Robin, quick question regarding formatting songs. I'm not sure how to achieve the indentation effect of 'Alas!':
image.png
I already use a single level indentation elsewhere with this code:
p span.i1{
padding-left: 2em;
text-indent: -1em;
}
I added an i2 second level indentation as per the manual, but that doesn't indent 'Alas!' enough:
https://github.com/SzymonSzott/wladyslaw-reymont_the-peasants_michael-henry-dziewicki/blob/master/src/epub/text/chapter-1-11.xhtml
Do I modify i2's indentation or do something else?

S.

Weijia Cheng

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Sep 28, 2025, 8:00:58 AM (11 days ago) Sep 28
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The way to use the i classes is to increase the number to whatever level of indentation you need and increase the padding-left value accordingly. Take a look around in some of the poetry collections for examples.

Szymon Szott

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Sep 28, 2025, 8:34:48 AM (11 days ago) Sep 28
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Thanks Weijia! It seems I'll be going with an i2 and an i10 class, like in this example:
https://github.com/standardebooks/radclyffe-hall_the-well-of-loneliness/blob/master/src/epub/css/local.css

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