The Vision and Creed of Piers Ploughman, Volume 1
Piers Plowman is the great alliterative poem of fourteenth-century England, a sequence of dream visions in which the narrator, Will, falls asleep on the Malvern Hills and sees a field full of folk between a tower of Truth and a dungeon of Falsehood. Through Lady Holy Church, Lady Meed, the Seven Deadly Sins and the plowman Piers, the poem searches for Do-Well, Do-Better and Do-Best and ends with the coming of Antichrist. Thomas Wright's edition, first published in 1842 and here reprinted in its revised form of 1887, prints the Middle English text from a Trinity College manuscript; this first volume contains the Vision itself, with the editor's historical introduction. It is available to read online in your browser on Vinteuil, with the opening pages free.
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The Vision and Creed of Piers Ploughman, Volume 1 by William Langland can be read online on Vinteuil, directly in your browser. The first chapter is free for everyone; the complete book is included in Vinteuil Reading ($4.99/month or $39.99/year) or yours forever for $2.99.
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What kind of book is The Vision and Creed of Piers Ploughman, Volume 1?
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