Cold Comfort Farm (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
by Stella Gibbons
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Author: Stella GibbonsIllustrator: Roz Chast
Introduction: Lynne Truss
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2006-03-28
ISBN: 0143039598
Number of pages: 256
Publisher: Penguin Classics
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Book Review: Entertaining little book
Summary: 4 Stars
Written as a parody of the sensationalized novels of the 1930s, Cold Comfort Farm is a short, funny, entertaining story. It all starts when orphaned Flora decides she would rather live off her relatives than find a job. After dashing off letters to her unsuspecting relations, she picks the Starkadder family of Cold Comfort Farm to move in with. The Starkadders are a bit of a backwards bunch: an oversexed brother, wild sister, and Bible thumping father, among others. They are all overseen by Flora's Great Aunt Ada Doom, who saw "something nasty in the woodshed" years before. Hilarity ensues as Flora attempts to clean up, domesticate, and civilize the Starkadder clan.
Summary of Cold Comfort Farm (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
A hilarious parody of D. H. Lawrence and Thomas Hardy's earthy, melodramatic novels, the deliriously entertaining Cold Comfort Farm is "very probably the funniest book ever written" (The Sunday Times).Classics Books
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