Description: Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons 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. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description A hilarious and merciless parody of rural melodramas and one of the best-loved comic novels of all timeWe 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.There is Judith in a scarlet shawl, heaving with remorse for an unspoken wickedness; raving old Ada Doom, who once saw something nasty in the woodshed; lustful Seth and despairing Reuben, Judiths two sons; and there is Amos, preaching fire and damnation to one and all.As the sukebind flowers, Flora takes each of the family in hand and brings order to their chaos.Cold Comfort Farm is a sharp and clever parody of the melodramatic and rural novel. Author Biography 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. Review 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 Waughs Scoop * Independent *One of the finest parodies written in English...a wickedly brilliant skit -- Robert Macfarlane * Guardian * Review Text Very probably the funniest book ever written Review Quote Very probably the funniest book ever written Promotional "Headline" A hilarious and merciless parody of rural melodramas and one of the best-loved comic novels of all time Details ISBN0241951518 Author Stella Gibbons Pages 240 Publisher Penguin Books Ltd Series Penguin Essentials Year 2011 ISBN-10 0241951518 ISBN-13 9780241951514 Format Paperback Imprint Penguin Books Ltd Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Birth 1902 Death 1989 Media Book Language English Short Title COLD COMFORT FARM DEWEY FIC Residence US Publication Date 2011-04-07 UK Release Date 2011-04-07 Audience General NZ Release Date 2011-05-12 AU Release Date 2011-05-12 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:35386857;
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Book Title: Cold Comfort Farm
Item Height: 181mm
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Author: Stella Gibbons
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Publication Year: 2011
Item Weight: 134g
Number of Pages: 240 Pages