Bibliograph

Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons ; with an afterword by Lynne Truss

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Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons ; with an afterword by Lynne Truss

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Cold Comfort Farm

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Stella Gibbons ; with an afterword by Lynne Truss

Series statement

Penguin modern classics

Summary

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 ruthless parody of rural melodramas and purple prose, Cold Comfort Farm is one of the best-loved comic novels of all time

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