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 . · Cold Comfort Farm is my desert island book. Once you have mined its depths you need no other book, not even the Pensées of the Abbé Fausse-Maigre, nor the cooling jellies waved by mocking demons; nothing nasty in any shed can touch you. · Comfort reading: Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons A great deal warmer, and much more comforting, than its title, this month's Reading group selection is a cheerful favourite of many Author: Imogen Russell Williams.
Cold Comfort Farm C1 Advanced. Stella Gibbons. human interest. 20 17 Some critics call this novel one of the funniest in the history of literature. It is a classic of the nineteenth century English literature and also a brilliant parody of the most popular novels of that time. Stella Dorothea Gibbons () was born in London. A novelist, poet and short-story writer, her first novel, Cold Comfort Farm, won the Femina Vie Heuruse Prize for Amongst her other novels are Miss Linsey and Pa, Nightingale Wood, Westwood, Conference at Cold Comfort Farm, and Beside the Pearly Water (). Lynne Truss is a writer and journalist. The best novels: No 57 - Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons () The book for which Gibbons is best remembered was a satire of late-Victorian pastoral fiction but went on to influence.
Cold Comfort Farm is my desert island book. Once you have mined its depths you need no other book, not even the Pensées of the Abbé Fausse-Maigre, nor the cooling jellies waved by mocking demons; nothing nasty in any shed can touch you. 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. 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.
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