{"product_id":"9780140434736-secondhand-a-simple-story","title":"A Simple Story","description":"An understated, charged novel by the groundbreaking playwright and novelist, Elizabeth Inchbald\n\nIn 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.\n\nIn 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.","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49176460230875,"sku":"9780140434736-SECONDHAND","price":10.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/416beb19-c552-437a-8ba9-3f763170c315.jpg?v=1787571291","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/9780140434736-secondhand-a-simple-story","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}