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Cold Comfort Farm
Series: Penguin Modern Classics
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Cold Comfort Farm
When a well-educated young socialite in 1930s England is left orphaned and unable to support herself at age twenty-two, she moves in with her eccentric relatives on their farm.
Stella Gibbons' hilarious comic novel of rural life, in Penguin Black Classics.
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Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons' hilarious comic novel of rural life, is new to Penguin Modern Classics.
When sensible, sophisticated Flora Poste is orphaned at nineteen, she decides her only choice is to descend upon relatives in deepest Sussex. At the aptly named Cold Comfort Farm, she meets the doomed Starkadders — cousin Judith, heaving with remorse for unspoken wickedness; Amos, preaching fire and damnation; their sons, lustful Seth and despairing Reuben; child of nature, Elfine; and crazed old Aunt Ada Doom, who has kept to her bedroom for the last twenty years.
But Flora loves nothing better than to organise other people. Armed with common sense and a strong will, she resolves to take each of the family in hand.
A hilarious and merciless parody of rural melodramas, Cold Comfort Farm (1932) is one of the best-loved comic novels of all time.
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Cold Comfort Farm is widely praised for its witty and satirical portrayal of rural life in England. Readers appreciate Stella Gibbons' sharp humour and clever narrative, which lampoons traditional romanticised depictions of the countryside. The book's blend of quirky characters and absurd situations has established it as a beloved classic in general fiction.
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ISBN: 9780241418895
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 30 January 2020
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Penguin Classics
Contributors:
- Introduction by Lynne Truss
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 15.0mm
Width: 129.0mm
Height: 198.0mm
Weight: 191g
Pages: 256
About the Author
Stella Gibbons was born in London in 1902. She went to the North London Collegiate School and studied journalism at University College, London. She then worked for ten years on various papers, including the Evening Standard. Stella Gibbons is the author of twenty-five novels, three volumes of short stories, and four volumes of poetry. Her first novel Cold Comfort Farm (1932) was an immediate success and won the Femina Vie Heureuse Prize for 1933. Among her works are Nightingale Wood (1938), The Bachelor (1944), Westwood (1946), and Starlight (1967). She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1950. Stella Gibbons died in 1989.
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