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A Simple Story

by Elizabeth Inchbald

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  1. 00 - Introduction/Preface

    29:21

  2. 01 - Volume I - Chapter 1

    7:14

  3. 02 - Volume I - Chapter 2

    11:51

  4. 03 - Volume I - Chapter 3

    3:30

  5. 04 - Volume I - Chapter 4

    7:55

  6. 05 - Volume I - Chapter 5

    10:03

  7. 06 - Volume I - Chapter 6

    6:59

  8. 07 - Volume I - Chapter 7

    12:02

  9. 08 - Volume I - Chapter 8

    5:37

  10. 09 - Volume I - Chapter 9

    9:11

  11. 10 - Volume I - Chapter 10

    9:42

  12. 11 - Volume I - Chapter 11

    10:56

  13. 12 - Volume I - Chapter 12

    14:44

  14. 13 - Volume I - Chapter 13

    8:14

  15. 14 - Volume I - Chapter 14

    12:56

  16. 15 - Volume I - Chapter 15

    13:31

  17. 16 - Volume I - Chapter 16

    18:20

  18. 17 - Volume I - Chapter 17

    10:27

  19. 18 - Volume II - Chapter 1

    12:50

  20. 19 - Volume II - Chapter 2

    10:00

  21. 20 - Volume II - Chapter 3

    19:26

  22. 21 - Volume II - Chapter 4

    18:27

  23. 22 - Volume II - Chapter 5

    11:49

  24. 23 - Volume II - Chapter 6

    7:47

  25. 24 - Volume II - Chapter 7

    20:26

  26. 25 - Volume II - Chapter 8

    14:42

  27. 26 - Volume II - Chapter 9

    16:51

  28. 27 - Volume II - Chapter 10

    14:44

  29. 28 - Volume II - Chapter 11

    24:34

  30. 29 - Volume II - Chapter 12

    12:02

  31. 30 - Volume III - Chapter 1

    11:08

  32. 31 - Volume III - Chapter 2

    5:03

  33. 32 - Volume III - Chapter 3

    14:50

  34. 33 - Volume III - Chapter 4

    4:17

  35. 34 - Volume III - Chapter 5

    12:01

  36. 35 - Volume III - Chapter 6

    14:25

  37. 36 - Volume III - Chapter 7

    6:34

  38. 37 - Volume III - Chapter 8

    11:00

  39. 38 - Volume III - Chapter 9

    9:48

  40. 39 - Volume III - Chapter 10

    8:50

  41. 40 - Volume III - Chapter 11

    21:35

  42. 41 - Volume III - Chapter 12

    15:38

  43. 42 - Volume III - Chapter 13

    14:49

  44. 43 - Volume III - Chapter 14

    8:58

  45. 44 - Volume IV - Chapter 1

    8:08

  46. 45 - Volume IV - Chapter 2

    11:23

  47. 46 - Volume IV - Chapter 3

    13:37

  48. 47 - Volume IV - Chapter 4

    11:31

  49. 48 - Volume IV - Chapter 5

    8:53

  50. 49 - Volume IV - Chapter 6

    15:55

  51. 50 - Volume IV - Chapter 7

    12:54

  52. 51 - Volume IV - Chapter 8

    4:45

  53. 52 - Volume IV - Chapter 9

    5:24

  54. 53 - Volume IV - Chapter 10

    9:28

  55. 54 - Volume IV - Chapter 11

    5:15

  56. 55 - Volume IV - Chapter 12

    12:59

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A Simple Story is the 1791 first novel by Elizabeth Inchbald (1753-1821), the English actress turned playwright and novelist, and one of the most admired English novels of its decade. The book falls in two movements: the courtship of the spirited, faulty Miss Milner and her guardian Dorriforth, a Catholic priest released from his vows to become Lord Elmwood, and then, a generation later, the suffering of their daughter Matilda under her father's unforgiving exile after her mother's adultery. Inchbald's psychological acuteness, dramatic scene-building, and the novel's analysis of female education drew praise from contemporaries and from later critics; Maria Edgeworth declared no book had moved her more. The novel keeps a place in the canon of eighteenth-century English fiction and of early women's writing.

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Elizabeth Inchbald was an English actor, playwright, novelist, critic, translator, and theatrical editor. A Simple Story, published in four volumes in 1791, established her as a novelist attentive to authority, conscience, and emotional restraint; Nature and Art followed in 1796 with a sharper comparison of social privilege and moral judgment.

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First published
1791
Reading time
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Pages
327
Language
English
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