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   Is Cold Comfort Farm a good book?

   • 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. The Penguin Classics edition of Stella Gibbons's Cold Comfort Farm is introduced by Lynne Truss, author of Eats, Shoots and Leaves.

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   Who wrote Cold Comfort Farm?

   • 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. Stella Gibbons was born in London in 1902.

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   Is Cold Comfort Farm a satire?

   • Cold Comfort Farm is a stinging satire and outrageously funny parody of the literature about rural English farm life, especially by Sheila Kaye-Smith, Mary Webb, and to a lesser extent, D.H. Lawrence and Thomas Hardy.

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   Does Cold Comfort Farm have a curse?

   • Cold Comfort Farm has a long history, the farmhouse having been burnt down, rebuilt, added to, burnt down, rebuilt and added to time and again over the centuries. It's bleak, and the Starkadders believe there is a curse on the farm. The dairy cows have names like "Pointless" and "Aimless" and keep falling apart. Literally.

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   Cold Comfort Farm Quotes Showing 1-30 of 102. “One of the disadvantages of almost universal education was the fact that all kinds of persons acquired a familiarity with one's favorite writers. It gave one a curious feeling; it was like seeing a drunken stranger wrapped in one's dressing gown.”. ― Stella Gibbons, Cold Comfort Farm.

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   They were the only kind of novel you could read while eating an apple.”. ― Stella Gibbons, quote from Cold Comfort Farm. Copy text. “That would be delightful,' agreed Flora, thinking how nasty and boring it would be.”. ― Stella Gibbons, quote from Cold Comfort Farm. Copy text. “Mary, you know I hate parties.

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   1. Satire and Parody: "Cold Comfort Farm" is known for its satirical and parodical nature, mocking the conventions of the rural Gothic genre. The author, Stella Gibbons, pokes fun at melodrama, excessive sentimentality, and exaggerated rural traditions. This highlights the absurdity and clichés often found in such novels. 2.

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   Collection of sourced quotations from Cold Comfort Farm (1932) by Stella Gibbons. Share with your friends the best quotes from Cold Comfort Farm.

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   Cold Comfort Farm. Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1932. A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more. Download PDF.

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   For your own books are not... funny. They are records of intense spiritual struggles, staged in the wild setting of mere, berg or fen. Tour characters are ageless and elemental things, tossed like straws on the seas of passion. You paint Nature at her rawest, in man and in landscapes.