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Simple Story by Elizabeth Inchbald (1997, Uk-B Format Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherPenguin Publishing Group

ISBN-100140434739

ISBN-139780140434736

eBay Product ID (ePID)67780

Product Key Features

Book TitleSimple Story

Number of Pages368 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year1997

TopicClassics, Contemporary Women, General, Literary

GenreFiction

AuthorElizabeth Inchbald

FormatUk-B Format Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight10.2 Oz

Item Length7.8 in

Item Width5.1 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN97-209264

Notes byClemit, Pamela

Dewey Edition21

TitleLeadingA

Dewey Decimal823/.6

SynopsisA 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 methods--expressive gestures, delayed revelations and economical dialogues--to 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., In scenes charged with understated erotic tension, A Simple Story - by groundbreaking playwright and novelist Elizabeth Inchbald - intertwines the tales 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 methods-expressive gestures, delayed revelations and economical dialogues-to 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.

LC Classification NumberPR3518.A73 1996