Cold Comfort Farm

Stella Gibbons

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English

Penguin Books Ltd
13 May 2011

Fiction & Literature; Classic fiction (pre c 1945)

Series: Penguin Essentials

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.

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, Judith's 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.

By: Stella Gibbons
Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: Re-issue
Dimensions: Height: 180mm, Width: 113mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 136g
ISBN: 9780241951514
ISBN 10: 0241951518
Series: Penguin Essentials
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 13 May 2011
Recommended Age: From 0 years
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Stella Gibbons was born in London in 1902. She went to North London Collegiate School and studied journalism at University College, London. She then worked for ten years on various papers, including the Evening Standard. Her first publication was a book of poems, The Mountain Beast (1930), and her first novel, Cold Comfort Farm (1932), won the Femina Vie Heureuse Prize. Amongst her other novels are Miss Linsey and Pa (1936), Nightingale Wood (1938), Westwood (1946), Conference at Cold Comfort Farm (1949) and Beside the Pearly Water (1954). Stella Gibbons died in 1989.

Reviews for Cold Comfort Farm

One of the finest parodies written in English...a wickedly brilliant skit -- Robert Macfarlane * Guardian * Delicious ... Cold Comfort Farm has the sunniness of a P. G. Wodehouse and the comic aplomb of Evelyn Waugh's Scoop' * Independent * Screamingly funny and wildly subversive -- Marian Keyes * Guardian * Very probably the funniest book ever written * Sunday Times *