| A Simple Story Revised Edition Contributor(s): Inchbald, Elizabeth (Author), Clemit, Pamela (Editor), Clemit, Pamela (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 0140434739 ISBN-13: 9780140434736 Publisher: Penguin Group OUR PRICE: $18.00 Product Type: Paperback Published: May 1997 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Women |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 97209264 |
| Series: Penguin Classics |
| Physical Information: 0.71" H x 5.04" W x 7.71" (0.56 lbs) 368 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 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. |