by Stella Gibbons · Penguin · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140274141
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«Cold Comfort Farm» is Stella Gibbons's rural parody novel, published by Penguin in paperback (240 pages, in English).
A parody of the melodramatic rural novels of its time, it tells how Flora Poste, recently orphaned, moves in with distant relatives at Cold Comfort Farm in Sussex. She lives with the eccentric Starkadders and Aunt Ada Doom, who has not come downstairs for twenty years. With common sense, Flora tries to bring order to the chaos.
The work was originally published in 1932; this English edition, from the Essential Penguin series, appeared in 1998.
For readers of classic fiction who appreciate literary satire and British humour.
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.
