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  • Published: 24 November 2006
  • ISBN: 9780141920078
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 256
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Cold Comfort Farm





First time in Black Classics for Stella Gibbons' classic comic novel of rural life

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.

Includes an introduction by Lynne Truss, and a letter from the author to Anthony Pookworthy in the foreword.

  • Published: 24 November 2006
  • ISBN: 9780141920078
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 256
Categories:

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