The Miller's Prologue and Tale (Selected Tales from Chaucer)

click here for more details, find new or used items	Geoffrey Chaucer Our price £6.75 (£7.50) New from £1.85 Used from £0.01 Pages: 108 (Paperback) Editor: James Winny Reading Level: Young Adult ISBN: 0521080339 Pub: Cambridge University Press Pub date: 1971-02-02 Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 55130

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Amazing text, especially for all AS levellers!! (3/3 people found this helpful)

I studied The Miller's Tale as part of my 'Texts in Context' paper and i thoroughly recommend that all budding AS levellers do the same for the following reasons- Chaucer is stunning, 14th century english is hilarious, the book is full of sex and it is a pleasure to study. Marvellous would be an understatement, life changing would be an overstatment, so i shall stick to 'wonderful'. READ IT NOW!

double dutch nonsense (2/53 people found this helpful)

i think the guy must have had is mouthed clubbed or he has been too busy sucking something (!) since he cannot seem to speak properly in this. i dont see why this crap has to be studied for..what use is it to help you in the real world?? NONE! thats why i am selling mine. its complete double dutch 900-years-outta-date crap.

Literature's best dirty dirty joke (17/18 people found this helpful)

It is a bawdy tale that involves adultery, superstition and three foolish men who are each punished in a suitable manner. One is burnt with a poker on the backside, another breaks his arm and the other kisses someone's backside by mistake! Now you've found out how they are punished, don't you want to know why?
Although farcical, it is also highly satitical and full of irony.
Also, it will appeal to feminists because the one female character is the only one to get off scott free and also manages to make fools out of the men.

A comic tale of love, lust and deceit! (9/10 people found this helpful)

Taken from the Canterbury Tales, the Miller's Tale is an entertaining medieval romp featuring four lovers, three tubs, two quarts of ale, one hot iron and a cunning trick. The young carpenter's wife Alison is the object many people's affections in the town of Oxford, her old husband, the young local parish clerk Absolom and her lodger, a clerk called Nicholas. Nicholas is quickly the one who takes her fancy but in order for them to be together Alisons says that Nicholas must fool the old carpenter, and so a cunning trick develops. A trick which convinces the Carpenter that Noah's flood will come again. A nasty surprise is also in store for Absolom whose attention is clearly uninvited, and the reader quickly suspects that all will not end happily for the deceitful lovers.

In the tale Chaucer exploits the fears of the medieval audience and his use of humour will still rouse a chuckle from the modern audience and readers today. This edition also has a helpful set of concise notes and a glossary to help novices battle their way through the language of middle English. This edition is also particularly good for students studying the tale as a set text for an exam.

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