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William Langland; trans. J. F. Goodridge.
Piers the Ploughman.
Published Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1960 reprint (previously issued 1959).
Series: Penguin Classics, no. L87.
[No ISBN].
Binding: paperback, perfect bound.
Printer: Hunt, Barnard & Co., Aylesbury.
Size: 110x179x19mm.
Page count: 366pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition fair: this copy has some wear on its covers, including a rip at the hinge between spine & front cover, and creases at the lower outside corners of both covers; covers and pages yellowed with age; the spine is wrinkled from manufacture, but not creased from reading, and the text appears to be free of marking.

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[Publisher’s price £8.99]
Weight without packaging: 215g.

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Presents a prose translation of the B‑text, with some passages from C translated as appendices.
Appendices: ‘Autobiographical’ passage from the C‑text; ‘The poorest folk are our neighbours’ — C‑text, X, ll. 71-97; Riddle of Patience, XIII, ll.135-71; Langland’s alliterative verse.

Illustrations: no
Maps & plans: no

Introduction: 53pp
Notes: at end of book
Tables: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: no
Index: no

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