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Cold Comfort Farm: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Cold Comfort Farm: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

by Lynne Truss (Introduction), Lynne Truss (Introduction), Stella Gibbons (Author)

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    Deckle Edge 2007

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Synopsis

Stella Gibbons' novel is a wickedly funny portrait of British rural life in the 1930s. Flora, a recently orphaned socialite, moves in with her country relatives, the gloomy Starkadders of Cold Comfort Farm.

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Format: Deckle Edge
 Pages: 236
 Publisher: Penguin Classics
Published: 01 Feb 2007
ISBN 10: 0143039598
ISBN 13: 9780143039594

Author Bio
Stella Dorothea Gibbons, novelist, poet and short-story writer, was born in London in 1902. Her first publication was a book of poems The Mountain Beast (1930) and her first novel Cold Comfort Farm (1932) won the Femina Vie Heuruse Prize for 1933. Amongst her other novels are Miss Linsey and Pa (1936), Nightingale Wood (1938), Westwood (1946), Conference at Cold Comfort Farm (1959) and Beside the Pearly Water (1954). Her Collected Poems appeared in 1950. Stella Gibbons died in 1989. Lynne Truss is a writer and journalist who started out as a literary editor with a blue pencil and then got sidetracked. The author of three novels and numerous radio comedy dramas, she spent six years as the television critic of The Times, followed by four (rather peculiar) years as a sports columnist for the same newspaper. She won Columnist of the Year for her work for Women's Journal. Lynne Truss also hosted Cutting a Dash, a popular BBC Radio 4 series about punctuation. She now reviews books for the Sunday Times and is a familiar voice on BBC Radio 4. She lives in Brighton.