by Stella Gibbons · Penguin Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140188691
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Cold Comfort Farm is a comic novel by Stella Gibbons, published in 1932. The story follows Flora Poste, a young orphan who moves to Cold Comfort Farm in Sussex to live with her eccentric relatives, the Starkadders. There, Flora faces the chaos and dysfunction of the family, trying to impose order and common sense in their lives. With memorable characters and hilarious situations, the novel is a satire of rural melodramatic novels and an exploration of life in the English countryside.
Stella Dorothea Gibbons was an English author, journalist, and poet. She established her reputation with her first novel, Cold Comfort Farm (1932), which has been reprinted many times. Although she was active as a writer for half a century, none of her later 22 novels or other literary works—which included a sequel to Cold Comfort Farm—achieved the same critical or popular success. Much of her work was long out of print before a modest revival in the 21st century.
