{"product_id":"a-simple-story","title":"A Simple Story","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat happens when the person charged with guiding your heart becomes the one who unsettles it?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDorriforth, a Catholic priest of firm principle, becomes guardian to Miss Milner after her father's death. She is clever, fashionable and fond of admiration. He values duty; she resists being ruled. In Elizabeth Inchbald's A Simple Story, their shared household becomes a place where affection presses against rules.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs their bond grows beyond formal respect, pride and jealousy put it under strain. Miss Woodley offers comfort, while Mr. Sandford speaks his mind plainly. The danger lies less in villains than in ordinary failings: a wish to be admired, an explanation withheld, a principle held too tightly.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eWhat you'll discover\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eA spirited, difficult heroine\u003c\/strong\u003e – Meet Miss Milner, whose charm and resistance to restraint make affection anything but simple.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDuty against the heart\u003c\/strong\u003e – Follow Dorriforth as his responsibility for his ward comes into conflict with his feelings.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDrama in small gestures\u003c\/strong\u003e – Feel tension gather around a conversation, a look, or a door that stays shut.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe weight of upbringing\u003c\/strong\u003e – Explore how harshness and indulgence shape the ways people love and hurt one another.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eConsequences across generations\u003c\/strong\u003e – Discover a family drama whose second half asks what the young inherit from earlier choices.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003ePerfect for readers who enjoy eighteenth-century fiction, family drama and patient character studies where small choices carry weight, especially those curious about Inchbald's sense of theatre.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOpen the first page and enter a household where doing right and loving well are not the same thing.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Library of Alexandria Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":59534753268060,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1027\/9442\/8764\/files\/11111_en_ebook-front_c11.jpg?v=1792175175","url":"https:\/\/libraryofalexandria.com\/products\/a-simple-story","provider":"The Library of Alexandria","version":"1.0","type":"link"}