EAN: 9780241418895

PENGUIN MODERN CLASSICS COLD COMFORT FARM - S...

One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World''Brilliant ... very probably the funniest
book ever written' Sunday TimesWhen 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  GuardianThe 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.

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