Publication date 1932 topics rashtrapati collection digitallibraryindia. It is generally thought that stella gibbons was mocking mary webbs precious bane when she wrote cold comfort farm, but she was probably having a pop at all those purveyors of country hardship, sex, doom and slop, hardy and lawrence included. Cold comfort farm stella gibbons book cover jigsaw. A hay festival and the poole vote 100 books for women selection a hilarious and merciless parody of rural. Buy cold comfort farm penguin classics reprint by gibbons, stella, truss, lynne isbn. Penguin essentials cold comfort farm by gibbons, stella and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. Stella gibbons is best known for her comic masterpiece cold comfort farm. Amongst her other novels are miss linsey and pa, nightingale wood, westwood, conference at cold comfort farm, and beside the pearly water 1954.
The deliriously entertaining cold comfort farm is very probably the funniest book ever written the sunday times, london, a hilarious parody of d. I imagine that stella gibbons wrote cold comfort farm from the artfully distressed comfort of a small garretlike room. It parodies the romanticised, sometimes doomladen accounts of rural. Conference at cold comfort farm by stella gibbons abebooks. This podcast scripts catchup from the really like this book miniseries on the mighty tradition of british humour in fiction is on stella gibbons fine satire of rural life and literary pretentiousness, cold comfort farm 1932.
Cold comfort farm is a comic novel by stella gibbons, published in 1932. Penguin essentials cold comfort farm by stella gibbons. She went to north london collegiate school and studied journalism at university college, london. Cold comfort farm by stella gibbons, paperback barnes. F ew writers get credit for starting a genre like poe with the detective story, or wells or verne for sciencefiction but on this date in 1932, stella gibbons killed one four years before, as a young woman working at a london newspaper, gibbons was assigned the task of summarizing the plot of a novel that was being published in installments. Gibbons wrote cold comfort farm while working for on the books pages of the lady. Flora poste, a recently orphaned socialite, moves in with her country relatives, the gloomy starkadders of cold comfort farm, and becomes enmeshed in a web of violent emotions, despair, and scheming, until flora manages to set things right. Cold comfort farm by stella gibbons at abbeys bookshop.
Stella dorothea gibbons, novelist, poet and shortstory writer, was born in london in 1902. One of the bbcs 100 novels that shaped the world a hay festival and the poole vote 100 books for women selection. Inspired, or perhaps provoked, by the fashion for novels. Cold comfort farm by stella gibbons the harbour bookshop. Cold comfort farm book by stella gibbons thriftbooks. Cold comfort farm is a 1995 british romantic comedy film directed by john schlesinger and produced by the bbc and thames television, an adaptation of stella gibbons 1932 book of the same name, the film stars kate beckinsale, joanna lumley, ian mckellen, and rufus sewell. A witty portrait of rural england in the early twentieth century, the penguin classics edition of stella gibbonss cold comfort farm is introduced by lynne truss, author of eats, shoots and leaves. Stella gibbons 1902 1989 was an english author and poet most famous for this novel cold comfort farm. I imagine that stella gibbons wrote cold comfort farm from the artfully distressed comfort of a. A hilarious and ruthless parody of rural melodramas and purple prose, cold comfort farm is one of the bestloved comic novels of all time.
Cold comfort farm by gibbons, stella and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. Lawrence, and the bronte sisters, where the tone is gloomy and nature reflects the moods and attributes of the characters. Sixteen years have passed since flora poste, robert postes child, arrived at cold comfort farm to sort out the lives of the starkadder family. She then worked for ten years on various papers, including the evening standard. A novelist, poet and shortstory writer, her first novel, cold comfort farm, won the femina vie heuruse prize for 1933. Lawrence and thomas hardy apiece, and id never heard of hugh walpole until i had to find out who she was mocking in. Although she was active as a writer for half a century, none of her later 22 novels or other literary workswhich.
The penguin classics edition of stella gibbonss cold comfort farm is introduced by lynne truss, author of eats, shoots and leaves. It parodies the romanticised, sometimes doomladen accounts of rural life popular at. Her most famous work has been adapted into a tv series and remains. She went to the north london collegiate school and studied journalism at university college, london. Its extremely pretty, and it has excellent secondhand bookshops, and christmas at cold comfort farm caught my eye. See all of librarian nancy pearls undertheradar picks. Her first novel cold comfort farm 1932 won the femina vie heuruse prize for 1933.
No 57 cold comfort farm by stella gibbons 1932 the book for which gibbons is best remembered was a satire of latevictorian pastoral fiction but went on to influence. In fact, it was inspired by heroine flora poste in the film cold comfort farm based on stella gibbons witty 1932 novel. In times of disorder, illness or general despondency, i return like a homing pigeon to cold comfort farm. She established her reputation with her first novel, cold comfort farm 1932 which has been reprinted many times. Cold comfort farm by stella gibbons by curlygeek04, december, 2015 stella gibbons wrote this comic novel in 1932. A hilarious and merciless parody of rural melodramas and one of the bestloved comic novels of all time, cold comfort farm by stella gibbons is beautifully repackaged as part of the penguin essentials range. Clad in a light tweed and perched gracefully in front of an oversized front strike, smithcorona type writer with a cup of tea in bone china cup and saucer just out of reach of the return of the barrel of the typewriter. I confess im not as familiar with the authors stella gibbons is lampooning in cold comfort farm as i should be, other than austen, ive read a novel and a half of d. A hilarious and merciless parody of rural melodramas, cold comfort farm 1932 is. We knit this slouchy hat in rowan island blendsoft, warm, and subtly gleaming.
Published in 1932, its a quintessentially british book which found success at the time, although her subsequent works received far less attention. Michele hanson on stella gibbons, cold comfort farm it is generally thought that stella gibbons was mocking mary webbs precious bane when she wrote cold comfort farm, but she was probably having a pop at all those purveyors of country hardship. Screamingly funny and wildly subversive marian keyes, guardian the penguin classics edition of stella gibbonss cold comfort farm is introduced by lynne truss, author of eats, shoots and leaves. Cold comfort farm by stella gibbons professional moron. Amongst her other novels are miss linsey and pa 1936, nightingale wood 1938, westwood 1946, conference at cold comfort farm 1959 and beside the pearly water 1954. Cold comfort farm by paul doust, adapted from the novel by stella gibbons paul dousts new adaptation embraces the book with a stylistic exuberance. It won a prestigious literary prize in 1933, the prix femina vie heureuse anglais, which marked the novel out as being one of the.
But flora loves nothing better than to organize other people. Read cold comfort farm, by stella gibbons online on bookmate in gibbonss classic tale, a resourceful young heroine finds herself in the gloomy, overwrought world of. So there i was in a secondhand bookshop in lewes also, go to lewes. A list of literary classics to download old titles that have passed out of protection are free for the downloading. Cold comfort farm by stella gibbons read online on bookmate. That rather ominous announcement sets the tone for cold comfort tale, a slyly comic tale about a modern young woman who decides to tidy up a backward sussex farm. Cold comfort farm by stella gibbons paperback, 256 pages list price. Taking its name from a line in william shakespeares. A witty parody of the pastoral fiction written by authors such as d h. Gibbons deft sense of humour and entertaining characters bring alive what could have been just another comingofage novel.
Read cold comfort farm, by stella gibbons online on bookmate in gibbonss classic tale, a resourceful young heroine finds. Spencerkay coffee and books cold comfort farm stella gibbons book cover. Its a satiric look at english novels like those by thomas hardy, d. One can easily tire of the lush, dripping, thrusting, tragic, moist, fecund countryside, and long for a brisk young. Ive found that most humorous books are of their time. Wodehouse and the comic aplomb of evelyn waughs scoop. We are not like other folk, maybe, but there have always been starkadders at cold. Buy cold comfort farm by stella gibbons with free delivery. The simple, elegant shape of this slouchy topper is beautifully timeless. Beyond cold comfort farm stella gibbons other works her first novel has overshadowed all her other books, but there is much to relish in gibbons later catalogue. Stella dorothea gibbons 19021989 was born in london. There have always been starkadders at cold comfort farm. Lawrence, thomas hardy, and the bronte sisters stark portrayal of country living.
Cold comfort farm stella gibbons jankin november 16, 2005 unfortunately i cannot find my copy lent to a student i bet and have just ordered one from amazon but i did mention that it is as well to remember wuthering heights especially joseph, and hazel woodus in gone to earth. Cold comfort farm by stella gibbons, hardcover abebooks. When sensible, sophisticated flora poste is orphaned at nineteen, she decides her only choice is to descend upon relatives in deepest sussex. Orphan flora poste, heroine of gibbonss tongueincheek classic novel, likes everything to be tidy and comfortable so whenshe goes to live. Conference at cold comfort farm by gibbons, stella and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. It parodies the romanticised, sometimes doomladen accounts of rural life popular at the time, by writers such as mary webb. Stella dorothea gibbons 5 january 1902 19 december 1989 was an english author, journalist, and poet. Winner of the 1933 femina vie heureuse prize, cold comfort farm is a wickedly funny portrait of british rural life in the 1930. Although she was active as a writer for half a century, none of her later 22 novels or other literary workswhich included a sequel to cold comfort farm achieved the same. Cold comfort farm by stella gibbons, book of a lifetime.
Cold comfort farm is a comic novel by english author stella gibbons, published in 1932. Armed with common sense and a strong will, she resolves to take each of the family in hand. Cold comfort farm by stella gibbons, first edition abebooks. Beyond cold comfort farm stella gibbons other works. Her first publication was a book of poems, the mountain beast 1930, and her first novel, cold comfort farm 1932, won the femina vie. Stella gibbons cold comfort farm is one of those novels that has outgrown the object of its lampoon. Newly bound by bayntunriviere in full light green morocco, the covers with a gilt fillet and thin floral roll border, the spine divided into six panels with gilt tooled raised bands and gilt compartments, lettered in the second and fourth and dated at the foot, the turnins tooled with two fillets and the floral roll, marbled endleaves. My stepmother gave me cold comfort farm by stella gibbons to read when i was.
388 966 361 1324 871 389 936 1281 993 466 828 323 1032 612 1254 465 386 227 317 380 891 967 102 405 1488 1530 523 691 380 1472 1004 1362 817 1392 1529 477 1534 1191 481 524 653 297 614 1417 369 122 994 1453