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Cold Comfort Farm ([New ed.])

Gibbons, StellaTruss, Lynne(Introduction by)
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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 organize other people.

Armed with common sense and a strong will, she resolves to take each of the family in hand.

A hilarious and merciless parody of rural melodramas, "Cold Comfort Farm" (1932) is one of the best-loved comic novels of all time.

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Product Details
Penguin Classics
0141441593 / 9780141441597
Paperback / softback
823.912
26/10/2006
United Kingdom
English
Classics
xix, 233 p.
20 cm
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