Cold Comfort Farm: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) - Softcover

Gibbons, Stella

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0143039598 ISBN 13: 9780143039594

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 2007

Synopsis

Stella Gibbons' novel is a wickedly funny portrait of British rural life in the 1930s. Flora, a recently orphaned socialite, moves in with her country relatives, the gloomy Starkadders of Cold Comfort Farm.

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Review:

Very probably the funniest book ever written

(Sunday Times)

Screamingly funny and wildly subversive (Marian Keyes Guardian)

Delicious ... Cold Comfort Farm has the sunniness of a P. G. Wodehouse and the comic aplomb of Evelyn Waugh's Scoop' (Independent)

One of the finest parodies written in English...a wickedly brilliant skit (Robert Macfarlane Guardian)

About the Author:

Stella Dorothea Gibbons, novelist, poet and short-story writer, was born in London in 1902. Her first publication was a book of poems The Mountain Beast (1930) and her first novel Cold Comfort Farm (1932) won the Femina Vie Heuruse Prize for 1933. Amongst her other novels are Miss Linsey and Pa (1936), Nightingale Wood (1938), Westwood (1946), Conference at Cold Comfort Farm (1959) and Beside the Pearly Water (1954). Her Collected Poems appeared in 1950. Stella Gibbons died in 1989.

Lynne Truss is a writer and journalist who started out as a literary editor with a blue pencil and then got sidetracked. The author of three novels and numerous radio comedy dramas, she spent six years as the television critic of The Times, followed by four (rather peculiar) years as a sports columnist for the same newspaper. She won Columnist of the Year for her work for Women’s Journal. Lynne Truss also hosted Cutting a Dash, a popular BBC Radio 4 series about punctuation. She now reviews books for the Sunday Times and is a familiar voice on BBC Radio 4. She lives in Brighton.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0143039598
• ISBN 13: 9780143039594
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 236