Conference At Cold Comfort Farm

Author : Stella Gibbons
Publisher : Random House
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2011-08-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781446499146

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Conference at Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons Pdf

Robert Poste's child is back at Cold Comfort Farm. But all is not well. Flora finds the farm transformed into a twee haven filled with Toby jugs and peasant pottery, and rooms labelled 'Quiete Retreate' and 'Greate laundrie'. It is, Flora winces, 'exactly like being locked in the Victoria and Albert Museum after closing time'. Worse, the farm is hosting a conference of the pretentious International Thinkers Group - a group made up of the 'sadistic owl' Mr Peccavi, loathsome Mr Mybug and the overpowering Mrs Ernestine Thump. And worst of all, there are no Starkadders at Cold Comfort Farm. All the he-cousins have gone abroad to make their fortunes and the female cousins are having a pretty thin time of it. Once again the sensible Flora decides to take the situation in hand.

Author : Clare West,Stella Gibbons
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 123 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Readers
ISBN : 0194228371

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Cold Comfort Farm by Clare West,Stella Gibbons Pdf

A school reader for secondary pupils, in the OXFORD BOOKWORMS. BLACK SERIES STAGE 6. This new series offers students at all levels the opportunity to extend their reading and appreciation of English.

Author : Stella Gibbons
Publisher : Random House
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2011-11-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781448113903

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Christmas at Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons Pdf

Indulge in a feel-good collection of stories from the author of Cold Comfort Farm. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH The title story tells of a typical Christmas at the farm before the coming of Flora Poste. It is a parody of the worst sort of family Christmas: Adam Lambsbreath dresses up as Father Christmas in two of Judith's red shawls. There are unsuitable presents, unpleasant insertions into the pudding and Aunt Ada Doom orders Amos to carve the turkey, adding: 'Ay, would it were a vulture, 'twere more fitting!' 'Stella Gibbons is the Jane Austen of the 20th century' Lynne Truss, author of the Constable Twitten series.

Author : Stella Gibbons
Publisher : Aegitas
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780369403049

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Cold comfort farm by Stella Gibbons Pdf

Cold Comfort Farm is a comic novel by English author Stella Gibbons, published in 1932. It parodies the romanticised, sometimes doom-laden accounts of rural life popular at the time, by writers such as Mary Webb. Following the death of her parents, the book and 's heroine, Flora Poste, finds she is possessed "of every art and grace save that of earning her own living". She decides to take advantage of the fact that "no limits are set, either by society or one and 's own conscience, to the amount one may impose on one and 's relatives", and settles on visiting her distant relatives at the isolated Cold Comfort Farm in the fictional village of Howling in Sussex. The inhabitants of the farm – Aunt Ada Doom, the Starkadders, and their extended family and workers – feel obliged to take her in to atone for an unspecified wrong once done to her father.

Author : Stella Gibbons
Publisher : Random House
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2011-11-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781448103386

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Here Be Dragons by Stella Gibbons Pdf

When Nell Sely moves from sleepy Dorset to Hampstead she leaves behind a childhood of dull teas and oppressive rules for the freedom of the big city. Naive and only nineteen, she becomes embroiled with the wayward John Gaunt and falls in with London's bohemian crowd. In this city of seductive, shifting morals, smoke-filled jazz-clubs and glamorous espresso bars, Nell must master her new found independence and learn to strike her own course.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1873
Category : Electronic
ISBN : EHC:148100213400O

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Country Life by Anonim Pdf

Author : Kingsley Amis
Publisher : Random House
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781446419847

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You Can't Do Both by Kingsley Amis Pdf

Robin Davies knows how to look after number one. Raised in a bland suburb of South London in the 1930s, Robin longs for the freedom to do what he wants. When he escapes to study in Oxford, he meets Nancy Bennett, a young woman even less worldly than himself. As Robin stumbles through his rites of passage to adulthood, involving rebellion, self-discovery, sex, war, seduction and the threat of commitment, we come to realise just how far he will go to have his cake and eat it.

Author : Stella Gibbons
Publisher : Longmans, Green, and Company [1939]
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1939
Category : Man-woman relationships
ISBN : UOM:39015003929885

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My American by Stella Gibbons Pdf

Author : Stella Gibbons
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2010-04-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101567579

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Nightingale Wood by Stella Gibbons Pdf

A sly and satirical fairytale by the author of Cold Comfort Farm Unavailable for decades, Stella Gibbons's Nightingale Wood is a delightfully modern romance ripe for rediscovery by the many fans of Cold Comfort Farm. Poor, lovely Viola has been left penniless and alone after her late husband's demise, and is forced to live with his family in their joy­less home. Its occupants are nearly insufferable: Mr. Withers is a tyrannical old miser; Mrs. Withers dismisses her as a common shop girl; and Viola's sisters-in-law, Madge and Tina, are too preoccupied with their own troubles to give her much thought. Only the prospect of the upcoming charity ball can lift her spirits-especially as Victor Spring, the local prince charming, will be there. But Victor's intentions towards the young widow are, in short, not quite honorable.

Author : Stella Gibbons
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1935
Category : Fairy tales
ISBN : LCCN:36008059

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The Untidy Gnome by Stella Gibbons Pdf

Author : Mary Webb
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1935
Category : Electronic
ISBN : LCCN:26027503

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Precious Bane by Mary Webb Pdf

Obsessed by wealth, a farm owner dominates his mother and sister.

Author : Gregory Benford
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Inventions
ISBN : 1588168220

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The Wonderful Future that Never was by Gregory Benford Pdf

"Flying cars, mail delivery by parachute, and other predictions from the past"--Jacket.

Author : Stella Gibbons
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2006-10-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780141920078

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Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons Pdf

One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World' 'Brilliant ... very probably the funniest book ever written' Sunday Times 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: cousin Judith, heaving with remorse for unspoken wickedness; Amos, preaching fire and damnation; their sons, lustful Seth and despairing Reuben; child of nature Elfine; and crazed old Aunt Ada Doom, who has kept to her bedroom for the last twenty years. But Flora loves nothing better than to organise other people. Armed with common sense and a strong will, she resolves to take each of the family in hand. A hilarious and ruthless parody of rural melodramas and purple prose, Cold Comfort Farm is one of the best-loved comic novels of all time. 'Screamingly funny and wildly subversive' Marian Keyes, Guardian The Penguin Classics edition of Stella Gibbons's Cold Comfort Farm is introduced by Lynne Truss, author of Eats, Shoots and Leaves. If you enjoyed Cold Comfort Farm you might like George and Weedon Grossmith's Diary of a Nobody, also available in Penguin Classics.

Author : Stella Gibbons
Publisher : Important Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07
Category : Daughters
ISBN : 8087830628

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Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons Pdf

A hilarious parody of D.H. Lawrence's and Thomas Hardy's earthy, melodramatic novels, the deliriously entertaining "Cold Comfort Farm" is "very probably the funniest book ever written" ("The Sunday Times").

Author : Eliakim M. Sibanda
Publisher : Africa World Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 159221276X

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The Zimbabwe African People's Union, 1961-87 by Eliakim M. Sibanda Pdf

This book is an exploration of the political history of insurgency in SOuthern Rhodesia. During the early years of its struggle, ZAPU employed non-violent means to try and achieve its goal for majority rule and a non-racial society. Because of the belligerancy of the White settler regime, ZAPU added the armed resistance to its strategy and went on to build a formidable army. Problems escalated and alliances were built and dissolved until, tired of being hunted down and butchered, the ZAPU leadership decided to merge its party with the ruling party in December 1987.