Cold Comfort Farm
By: Gibbons, Stella [VerfasserIn]
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BookSeries: Penguin modern classics.Publisher: UK : Penguin Random House , 2006Edition: New edition introduction by Lynne Truss.Description: 20 cm 247 pages.ISBN: 9780241418895.Subject(s): Farm life -- England -- Sussex -- Fiction -- Farm life | Families -- Fiction -- Families | Vie à la ferme - Angleterre - Sussex - Romans, nouvelles, etc -- England | Familles - Romans, nouvelles, etc | Families | Farm life | Satirical literature | Humorous fiction | Domestic fiction | Fiction | Humorous fiction | Domestic fiction | Satirical fiction | England - SussexDDC classification: 823.912 Summary: 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 organise other people. Armed with common sense and a strong will, she resolves to take each of the family in hand. A hilarious and ruthless parody of rural melodramas and purple prose, Cold Comfort Farm is one of the best-loved comic novels of all time
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This edition originally published: 2006
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 organise other people. Armed with common sense and a strong will, she resolves to take each of the family in hand. A hilarious and ruthless parody of rural melodramas and purple prose, Cold Comfort Farm is one of the best-loved comic novels of all time
2006
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