{"product_id":"9780140434736","title":"Simple Story","description":"\u003cp\u003e\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. \u003c\/p\u003e\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\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50014134796528,"sku":"9780140434736","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780140434736_p0.jpg?v=1784231652","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780140434736","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}