{"product_id":"a-simple-story-9780140434736","title":"A Simple Story","description":"\u003cb\u003eA Simple Story\u003c\/b\u003e by the actress, playwright and novelist Elizabeth Inchbald has remained enduringly popular and almost continuously in print since its first publication in 1791. \u003cp\u003eIn 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Penguin Publishing Group\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/01\/1997\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780140434736\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 368\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.56lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.71h x 5.04w x 0.71d","brand":"Elizabeth Inchbald","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45150605213877,"sku":"9780140434736","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_0550e4d1-5f0b-4c3a-871d-7fa6891bedb5.jpg?v=1741104487","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/a-simple-story-9780140434736","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}