![]() ![]() If you enjoyed Cold Comfort Farm you might like George and Weedon Grossmith's Diary of a Nobody, also available in Penguin Classics. The Penguin Classics edition of Stella Gibbons's Cold Comfort Farm is introduced by Lynne Truss, author of Eats, Shoots and Leaves. 'Screamingly funny and wildly subversive' Marian Keyes, Guardian These were sentimental romances featuring poor but honest young women who overcame adversity to marry someone slightly less poor than themselves. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Cold Comfort Farm. Cold Comfort Farm was published in 1932, and it's a parody of a genre that was popular at the time, the rural novel, particularly as written by one Mary Webb. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. 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. Cold Comfort Farm - Kindle edition by Stella Gibbons. ![]() Armed with common sense and a strong will, she resolves to take each of the family in hand. But Flora loves nothing better than to organise other people. 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. When sensible, sophisticated Flora Poste is orphaned at nineteen, she decides her only choice is to descend upon relatives in deepest Sussex. very probably the funniest book ever written' Sunday Times ![]()
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