Cold Comfort Farm: Popular Penguins by Stella Gibbons (English) Paperback Book

Description: Cold Comfort Farm: Popular Penguins by Stella Gibbons When sensible, sophisticated Flora Poste is orphaned at nineteen, she decides her only choice is to descend upon relatives in deepest Sussex. At the aptly named Cold Comfort Farm, she meets the doomed Starkadders, an eccentric group of relatives suffering from a wide variety of ailments. But Flora loves nothing better than to organize other people. Armed with common sense and a strong will, she resolves to take each of the family in hand. A hilarious and merciless parody of rural melodramas, Cold Comfort Farm is one of the best-loved comic novels of all time. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description When sensible, sophisticated Flora Poste is orphaned at nineteen, she decides her only choice is to descend upon relatives in deepest Sussex. At the aptly named Cold Comfort Farm, she meets the doomed Starkadders, an eccentric group of relatives suffering from a wide variety of ailments. But Flora loves nothing better than to organize other people. Armed with common sense and a strong will, she resolves to take each of the family in hand. A hilarious and merciless parody of rural melodramas, Cold Comfort Farm is one of the best-loved comic novels of all time. Author Biography Stella Dorothea Gibbons, novelist, poet and short-story writer, was born in London in 1902. She went to the North London Collegiate School and studied journalism at University College, London. She then worked for ten years on various papers, including the Evening Standard.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.In 1933 she married the actor and singer Allan Webb, who died in 1959. They had one daughter. Stella Gibbons died in 1989. Details ISBN0141045485 Author Stella Gibbons Pages 264 Publisher Penguin Books Ltd Series Popular Penguins Year 2009 ISBN-10 0141045485 ISBN-13 9780141045481 Format Paperback Publication Date 2009-06-29 Imprint Penguin Books Ltd Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Birth 1902 Death 1989 Tag TNXMAS007 DEWEY 823.91 Language English UK Release Date 2009-06-29 Audience General NZ Release Date 2009-06-28 AU Release Date 2009-06-28 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:21172424;

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