# A Simple Story Author: Inchbald, Mrs., 1753-1821; Strachey, Lytton, 1880-1932 [Editor] Genre: Category: Novels Language: English License: Public domain Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/22002 Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=A+Simple+Story+Inchbald&tag=cyberlibrar00-20 ## Summary _A Simple Story_ is one of those books which, for some reason or other, have failed to come down to us, as they deserved, along the current of time, but have drifted into a literary backwater where only the professional critic or the curious discoverer can find them out. “The iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy;” and nowhere more blindly than in the republic of letters. If we were to inquire how it has happened that the true value of Mrs. Inchbald’s achievement has passed out of general recognition, perhaps the answer to our question would be found to lie in the extreme difficulty with which the mass of readers detect and appreciate mere quality in literature. Their judgment... ## Chapters - [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-simple-story-22002/chapters/1/index.md) - [Chapter 29](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-simple-story-22002/chapters/29/index.md) - [Chapter 25](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-simple-story-22002/chapters/25/index.md) - [Chapter 22](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-simple-story-22002/chapters/22/index.md) - [Chapter 41](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-simple-story-22002/chapters/41/index.md) - [Chapter 17](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-simple-story-22002/chapters/17/index.md) - [Chapter 21](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-simple-story-22002/chapters/21/index.md) - [Chapter 27](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-simple-story-22002/chapters/27/index.md) - [Chapter 33](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-simple-story-22002/chapters/33/index.md) - [Chapter 26](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-simple-story-22002/chapters/26/index.md) - [Chapter 50](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-simple-story-22002/chapters/50/index.md) - [Chapter 42](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-simple-story-22002/chapters/42/index.md) - [Chapter 36](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-simple-story-22002/chapters/36/index.md) - [Chapter 28](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-simple-story-22002/chapters/28/index.md) - [Chapter 43](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-simple-story-22002/chapters/43/index.md) - [Chapter 30](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-simple-story-22002/chapters/30/index.md) - [Chapter 15](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-simple-story-22002/chapters/15/index.md) - [Chapter 13](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-simple-story-22002/chapters/13/index.md) - [Chapter 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-simple-story-22002/chapters/8/index.md) - [Chapter 16](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-simple-story-22002/chapters/16/index.md) - [Chapter 35](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-simple-story-22002/chapters/35/index.md) - [Chapter 47](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-simple-story-22002/chapters/47/index.md) - [Chapter 51](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-simple-story-22002/chapters/51/index.md) - [Chapter 56](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-simple-story-22002/chapters/56/index.md) - [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-simple-story-22002/chapters/3/index.md) - [Chapter 38](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-simple-story-22002/chapters/38/index.md) - [Chapter 19](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-simple-story-22002/chapters/19/index.md) - [Chapter 23](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-simple-story-22002/chapters/23/index.md) - [Chapter 18](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-simple-story-22002/chapters/18/index.md) - [Chapter 31](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-simple-story-22002/chapters/31/index.md) - [Chapter 46](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-simple-story-22002/chapters/46/index.md) - [Chapter 48](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-simple-story-22002/chapters/48/index.md) - [Chapter 39](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-simple-story-22002/chapters/39/index.md) - [Chapter 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-simple-story-22002/chapters/10/index.md) - [Chapter 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-simple-story-22002/chapters/12/index.md) - [Chapter 40](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-simple-story-22002/chapters/40/index.md) - [Chapter 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-simple-story-22002/chapters/6/index.md) - [Chapter 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-simple-story-22002/chapters/11/index.md) - [Chapter 20](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-simple-story-22002/chapters/20/index.md) - [Chapter 14](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-simple-story-22002/chapters/14/index.md) - [Chapter 24](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-simple-story-22002/chapters/24/index.md) - [Chapter 44](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-simple-story-22002/chapters/44/index.md) - [Chapter 49](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-simple-story-22002/chapters/49/index.md) - [Chapter 54](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-simple-story-22002/chapters/54/index.md) - [Chapter 45](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-simple-story-22002/chapters/45/index.md) - [Chapter 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-simple-story-22002/chapters/7/index.md) - [Chapter 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-simple-story-22002/chapters/5/index.md) - [Chapter 37](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-simple-story-22002/chapters/37/index.md) - [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-simple-story-22002/chapters/2/index.md) - [Chapter 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-simple-story-22002/chapters/9/index.md) - [Chapter 53](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-simple-story-22002/chapters/53/index.md) - [Chapter 52](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-simple-story-22002/chapters/52/index.md) - [Chapter 55](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-simple-story-22002/chapters/55/index.md) - [Chapter 34](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-simple-story-22002/chapters/34/index.md) - [Chapter 32](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-simple-story-22002/chapters/32/index.md) - [Chapter 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-simple-story-22002/chapters/4/index.md)