Piers Plowman
- ISBN-10
- 0520046323
- ISBN-13
- 9780520046320
- Series
- Piers Plowman
- Category
- Poetry
- Pages
- 416
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1982
- Publisher
- Univ of California Press
- Author
- William Langland
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