Cold Comfort Farm
$18.52
- Paperback
240 pages
- Release Date
13 May 2011
Summary
A hilarious and merciless parody of rural melodramas and one of the best-loved comic novels of all time
‘We are not like other folk, maybe, but there have always been Starkadders at Cold Comfort Farm…’
Sensible, sophisticated Flora Poste has been expensively educated to do everything but earn a living. When she is orphaned at twenty, she decides her only option is to descend on relatives - the doomed Starkadders at the aptly named Cold Comfort Farm.
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241951514 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0241951518 |
| Author: | Stella Gibbons |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 13 May 2011 |
| Weight: | 135g |
| Dimensions: | 181mm x 112mm x 15mm |
| Series: | Penguin Essentials |
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Critics Review
Very probably the funniest book ever written
Very probably the funniest book ever written
* Sunday Times *Screamingly funny and wildly subversive – Marian Keyes * Guardian *
Delicious … Cold Comfort Farm has the sunniness of a P. G. Wodehouse and the comic aplomb of Evelyn Waugh’s Scoop’ * Independent *
One of the finest parodies written in English…a wickedly brilliant skit – Robert Macfarlane * Guardian *
About The Author
Stella Gibbons
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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