Memoirs of a peasant : from serfdom to the present day
(2019)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
Local History/Genealogy/943.86603092/STOMKA,J
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
Chicago, IL : Polish Genealogical Society of America, [2019]
©2019
©2019
DESCRIPTION
x, 493 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780924207167, 0924207167, 9780924207167
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
"Modern English translation"--Spine
"Memoirs of a peasant is my translation of Pamiętniki włościanina, od pańszczyzny do dni dzisiejszych [Memoirs of a peasant, from serfdom to modern times]. The book was written by a peasant, Jan Słomka, who lived 1842-1932. ... The first Polish-language edition of Słomka's book was published in Kraków in 1912. Its success inspired Słomka to do a second, expanded edition, published in Kraków in 1929; ... In preparing this translation, I worked from the text of that second edition"--Page vii