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A Simple Story
by Elizabeth Inchbald
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Acceptable/Acceptable
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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Synopsis
A Simple Story by the actress, playwright and novelist Elizabeth Inchbald has remained enduringly popular and almost continuously in print since its first publication in 1791. In scenes charged with understated erotic tension it tells the stories of the flirtatious Miss Milner who falls in love with her guardian, a Roman Catholic priest and aristocrat, and of their daughter Matilda who, banished from her father's sight, craves his love. In her use of dramatic methodsexpressive gestures, delayed revelations and economical dialoguesto present these two versions of the same power-struggle between an older father-lover figure and a young girl, Inchbald achieves a psychological intensity and subtlety of characterization rarely found in other late eighteenth-century novelists.
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- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1676560631LEE
- Title
- A Simple Story
- Author
- Elizabeth Inchbald
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable/Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Date Published
- 1967
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