Cold Comfort Farm (Penguin Essentials) by Gibbons, Stella Re-issue Edition ()/5(K). · Cold Comfort Farm was first published by Longmans in , and was, according to the critic Lynne Truss, labelled “middlebrow”, to Gibbons’s Estimated Reading Time: 5 mins. Her first novel, Cold Comfort Farm, won the Femina Vie Heureuse Prize for A satire and parody of the pessimistic ruralism of Thomas Hardy, his followers and especially Precious Bain by Mary Webb -the "loam and lovechild" genre, as some called it, Cold Comfort Farm introduces a self-confident young woman, Stella Dorothea Gibbons was an English novelist, journalist, poet and short-story writer/5.
Book Club Review: "Cold Comfort Farm" by Stella Gibbons We are part of a group of librarian friends who have had an ongoing bookclub running for the last year and a half. Each "season" (we're nerds) we pick a theme and each of us chooses a book within that theme for us all to read. Cold Comfort Farm Summary Study Guide includes comprehensive information and analysis to help you understand the book. This study guide contains the following sections: This detailed literature summary also contains Topics for Discussion and a Free Quiz on Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons. Set primarily in Sussex, England, circa s. Cold Comfort Farm. by. Stella Gibbons, Lynne Truss (Introduction), Roz Chast (Illustrations) · Rating details · 46, ratings · 3, reviews. Winner of the Femina Vie Heureuse Prize, COLD COMFORT FARM is a wickedly funny portrait of British rural life in the s. Flora Poste, a recently orphaned socialite, moves in with her.
Cold Comfort Farm is a comic novel by English author Stella Gibbons, published in It parodies the romanticised, sometimes doom-laden accounts of rural life popular at the time, by writers such as Mary Webb. Cold Comfort Farm (September ) is the first book by British author Stella Gibbons. Upon publication, it became an instant success. The comic novel is a parody of rural romances that were popular in Britain at the time. Cold Comfort Farm was first published by Longmans in , and was, according to the critic Lynne Truss, labelled “middlebrow”, to Gibbons’s disadvantage among the critics. But the book sold.
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