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Cold Comfort Farm

By Stella Gibbons

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Cold Comfort Farm

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In Gibbons's classic tale, a resourceful young heroine finds herself in the gloomy, overwrought world of a Hardy or Bronte novel and proceeds to organize everyone out of their romantic tragedies into the pleasures of normal life. Flora Poste, orphaned at 19, chooses to live with relatives at Cold Comfort Farm in Sussex, where cows are named Feckless, Aimless, Pointless, and Graceless, and the proprietors, the dour Starkadder family, are tyrannized by Flora's mysterious aunt, who controls the household from a locked room. Flora's confident and clever management of an alarming cast of eccentrics is only half the pleasure of this novel. The other half is Gibbons's wicked sendup of romantic cliches, from the mad woman in the attic to the druidical peasants with their West Country accents and mystical herbs. Anne Massey's skillful rendering of a variety of accents will make this story more accessible to American audiences. Recommended for both literary and popular collections.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
128
Release Date:
2008-10-30
Publication Date:
2008-10-02
Publisher:
www.bnpublishing.net
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1607960214
ISBN13:
9781607960218
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Minimum Reading Age:
18
Maximum Reading Age:
19
Weight:
198 g
Height:
152 cm
Width:
229 cm
Thickness:
8 cm

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