||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Flawed but Amusing|By Nina A. Schwartz|A charming and amusing book. Perfect for just relaxing! Gibbons pokes fun at the heavily romantic, sweat-and-furrow writing popular in the 1920s. She contrasts town mouse Flora's pragmatic outlook with the Heathcliffish fatalism of her pastoral cousins, the Starkadders. There are a few caveats. Readers don't get to witness Flora's co|From Library Journal|In Gibbons's classic tale, first published in 1932, 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 o
"Quite simply one of the funniest satirical novels of the last century." —Nancy Pearl, NPR's Morning Edition
The deliriously entertaining Cold Comfort Farm is "very probably the funniest book ever written" (The Sunday Times, London), a hilarious parody of D. H. Lawrence's and Thomas Hardy's earthy, melodramatic novels. When the recently orphaned socialite Flora Poste descends on her relatives at the aptly named Col...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Cold Comfort Farm (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) | Stella Gibbons.Not only was the story interesting, engaging and relatable, it also teaches lessons.
