Cold Comfort Farm
$23.71
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
31 March 2020
Summary
Stella Gibbons’ hilarious comic novel of rural life, 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 A…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241418895 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0241418895 |
| Author: | Stella Gibbons, Lynne Truss |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 31 March 2020 |
| Weight: | 194g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 129mm x 15mm |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
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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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