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, GuardianStella Gibbons was born in London in 1902. Cold Comfort Farmhas the sunniness of a P. Cold Comfort Farmis a sharp and clever parody of the melodramatic and rural novel.'Very probably the funniest book ever written' Sunday Times'Screamingly funny and wildly subversive' Marian Keyes, Guardian'Delicious.

As the sukebind flowers, Flora takes each of the family in hand and brings order to their chaos. When she is orphaned at twenty, she decides her only option is to descend on relatives - the doomed Starkadders at the aptly named Cold Comfort Farm.There is Judith in a scarlet shawl, heaving with remorse for an unspoken wickedness raving old Ada Doom, who once saw something nasty in the woodshed lustful Seth and despairing Reuben, Judith's two sons and there is Amos, preaching fire and damnation to one and all. 'We are not like other folk, maybe, but there have always been Starkadders at Cold Comfort Farm.'Sensible, sophisticated Flora Poste has been expensively educated to do everything but earn a living. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.Print Cold Comfort Farm: Popular PenguinsĪ hilarious and merciless parody of rural melodramas and one of the best-loved comic novels of all time, Cold Comfort Farmby Stella Gibbons is beautifully repackaged as part of the Penguin Essentials range. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. When the recently orphaned socialite Flora Poste descends on her relatives at the aptly named Cold Comfort Farm in deepest Sussex, she finds a singularly miserable group in dire need of her particular talent: organization.įor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. Lawrence's and Thomas Hardy's earthy, melodramatic novels.

The deliriously entertaining Cold Comfort Farm is very probably the funniest book ever written ( The Sunday Times, London), a hilarious parody of D. Quite simply one of the funniest satirical novels of the last century.

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