Playful and ironic, witty and warm-hearted, Stella Gibbons gives us her debut novel and the masterpiece that is Cold Comfort Farm. When sophisticated and educated socialite Flora Poste is orphaned at 19 with little income, she descends upon her relatives the gloomy Starkadders in deepest rural Sussex.
A veritable bunch of misfits with melodrama galore, the family is taken under the wing of Flora as she looks to release everyone and everything from the clutches of her Aunt Ada Doom and fix their social, sexual and psychological issues. A brilliantly funny tale.
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One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World' 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.
Cold Comfort Farm features in the following genres: Modern and Contemporary Fiction, Classic fiction: general and literary, General Fiction, Fiction
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Cold Comfort Farm was written by Stella Gibbons, Lynne Truss and published by Penguin Classics an imprint of Penguin Books Ltd
Cold Comfort Farm has 247 pages
Yes it is part of Penguin Modern Classics series
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