Piers the Ploughman
- ISBN-10
- 0141960922
- ISBN-13
- 9780141960920
- Category
- Poetry
- Pages
- 320
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2006-01-26
- Publisher
- Penguin UK
- Author
- William Langland
Description
Written by a fourteenth-century cleric, this spiritual allegory explores man in relation to his ultimate destiny against the background of teeming, colorful medieval life.
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