# A Simple Story

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- Authors: [Elizabeth Inchbald](https://www.bookquiver.com/elizabeth-inchbald), [Pamela Clemit](https://www.bookquiver.com/pamela-clemit)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 1996-08-29

## Description

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.

## Editions

### A Simple Story

- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4043-473-6
- Pages: 368
- Published: 1996-08-29
- Language: en_GB