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Understanding A Simple Story in the Oxford World’s Classics Series

"A Simple Story by Elizabeth Inchbald, part of the prestigious Oxford World’s Classics series, represents a major milestone in late-eighteenth-century British literature, bridging the sentimental novel and the novel of manners while exploring intricate themes of education, power, and domestic authority. Published in 1791, Elizabeth Inchbald’s A Simple Story is a pioneering work of fiction that remains essential reading for students and scholars of eighteenth-century and Romantic-era literature. Its inclusion in the Oxford World’s Classics series provides modern readers with an authoritative text, accompanied by scholarly apparatus, historical..."

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