Cold Comfort Farm
Author: Gibbons, Stella
ISBN: 9780241418895
Publisher: Penguin
Year First Published: 2020
Pages: 256
Dimensions: 196mm x 129mm x 22mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
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 Ada Doom, who has kept to her bedroom for the last twenty years. But Flora loves nothing better than to organize other people. Armed with common sense and a strong will, she resolves to take each of the family in hand. A hilarious and merciless parody of rural melodramas, Cold Comfort Farm (1932) is one of the best-loved comic novels of all time.
ISBN: 9780241418895
Publisher: Penguin
Year First Published: 2020
Pages: 256
Dimensions: 196mm x 129mm x 22mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
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 Ada Doom, who has kept to her bedroom for the last twenty years. But Flora loves nothing better than to organize other people. Armed with common sense and a strong will, she resolves to take each of the family in hand. A hilarious and merciless parody of rural melodramas, Cold Comfort Farm (1932) is one of the best-loved comic novels of all time.
