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A Simple Story (Oxford World's Classics)
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Product Description
When Miss Milner announces her passion for her guardian, a Catholic priest, she breaks through the double barrier of religious vocation and society's standards of `proper' womanly behaviour. Her love is legitimized when Dorriforth is released from his vows, but she finds her own unorthodox nature cannot conform to a marriage where her husband continues to be a stern moral guide. With a surenees of touch that prefigures Jane Austen, Elizabeth Inchbald shows that there is no simple answer to their predicament, and that their conflict can only be resolved in the next generation.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #444547 in Books
- Published on: 1998-09-10
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 384 pages
Editorial Reviews
About the Author
The late J.M.S. Tompkins edited the OEN text from which edition derives
Customer Reviews
A realistic and moving portrait of the charecters
It is always fun to read about the rich and beautifull, no matter when and where they lived. It is also fun to get a glimpse at the mind of people that lived two hunderd years ago. In this book, however, there is more -- the characters become so alive and natural, that the gaps in time and place are blurred, and you find yourself thinking of them as real people, sitting with you in the same room, and start regarding them as such (why are these women crying all the time?!) rather then as fiction. In spite a slight over dose of emotions, the experience of reading this book is realistic and moving.
A compulsive read - full of anticipation!
This novel is an excellent insight into the behaviour and emotions of people living long ago. From the opening of the first chapter, one is completely enthralled and absolutely addicted to the constant anticipation of what is to come. The first half of the book almost makes the ending seem predictable - until about the middle, when everything is turned on its head and leaves the reader completely moved and somewhat 'scarred' for having read it.
Beautifully written and magnificent!
You cannot afford not to read this book!
