Cold Comfort Farm (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
by Stella Gibbons
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Author: Stella GibbonsIllustrator: Roz Chast
Introduction: Lynne Truss
Edition: Paperback
Published: 2006-03-28
ISBN: 0143039598
Number of pages: 256
Publisher: Penguin Classics
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Book Review: Cold Comfort Farm warms you in all the right places
Summary: 5 Stars
It is incredible to think that this little book was written over 75 years ago, but stays as fresh and funny as the day it was first published.
Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons, is a darkly comic, tongue in cheek, parody written in 1932.
Upon the death of her parents, the newly impoverished Flora moves in with relatives, the Starkadders, who live in what we would now consider squalor, on Cold Comfort Farm. There she encounters all sorts of eccentrics and sets about turning their lives around.
It is a slim volume but extremely good; humorous and sends up all those earnest melodramas so popular at the time it was written. It is a very English book and initially may not appeal to all American readers, but is one of the few books that improves upon re-reading. If you don't get it the first time, leave it a few months and then read it again. It is absolutely worth it.
Not all the ends are tied up, and what the dotty aunt experienced in the woodshed is left to your own imagination.
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).Comic Books
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