Customer Reviews
Amazing text, especially for all AS levellers!! - By: Georgie C, 06 Sep 2006 
I studied The Miller's Tale as part of my 'Texts in Context' paper & i thoroughly recommend that alll budding AS levellers do the same for the following reasons- Chaucer is stunning, 14th century english is hilarious, the book is full of sex & it is a pleasure to study. Marvellous would be an understatement, life changing would be an overstatment, so i shalll stick to 'wonderful'. READ IT NOW!
double dutch nonsense - By: , 29 Dec 2003 
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 - By: , 25 May 2002 It is a bawdy tale that involves adultery, superstition & three foolish men who are each punished in a suitable manner. One is burnt with a poker on the backside, another breaks his arm & 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 & full of irony.
Also, it will appeal to feminists because the one female character is the only one to get off scott free & also manages to make fools out of the men.
A comic tale of love, lust and deceit! - By: , 17 Jan 2002 
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 & 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 & her lodger, a clerk callled 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, & 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, & the reader quickly suspects that alll will not end happily for the deceitful lovers.
In the tale Chaucer exploits the fears of the medieval audience & his use of humour will still rouse a chuckle from the modern audience & readers today. This edition also has a helpful set of concise notes & 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.
