# Piers the Ploughman

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- Book: [Piers the Ploughman](https://www.bookquiver.com/william-langland/piers-the-ploughman) ([Piers the Ploughman.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/william-langland/piers-the-ploughman.md))
- Authors: [William Langland](https://www.bookquiver.com/william-langland)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4044-087-4
- Pages: 320
- Published: 2006-01-26
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## 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.