Cold Comfort Farm (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781607960218)

In Gibbons's classic tale, a resourceful young heroine finds herself in the gloomy, overwrought world of a Hardy or Bronte novel and proceeds to organize everyone out of their romantic tragedies into the pleasures of normal life. Flora Poste, orphaned at 19, chooses to live with relatives at Cold Comfort Farm in Sussex, where cows are named Feckless, Aimless, Pointless, and Graceless, and the proprietors, the dour Starkadder family, are tyrannized by Flora's mysterious aunt, who controls the household from a locked room. Flora's confident and clever management of an alarming cast of eccentrics is only half the pleasure of this novel. The other half is Gibbons's wicked sendup of romantic cliches, from the mad woman in the attic to the druidical peasants with their West Country accents and mystical herbs. Anne Massey's skillful rendering of a variety of accents will make this story more accessible to American audiences. Recommended for both literary and popular collections.

Author: Stella Gibbons
ISBN-10: 1607960214
ISBN-13: 9781607960218
Publisher: www.bnpublishing.com
Language: English
Published: 10/02/2008
Pages: 128
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.46lbs
Size: 9.03h x 6.09w x 0.36d