An edition of Cold Comfort Farm (1932)

Cold Comfort Farm

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An edition of Cold Comfort Farm (1932)

Cold Comfort Farm

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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 organize other people. Armed with common sense and a strong will, she resolves to take each of the family in hand. A hilarious and merciless parody of rural melodramas, Cold Comfort Farm (1932) is one of the best-loved comic novels of all time.

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Publisher
Penguin Books
Language
English
Pages
233

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Subjects

Fiction, humorous, general, Fiction, family life, England, fiction, Large type books, Farm life, Families, Fiction, Family, Literature, Rural families, Fiction, humorous, English fiction, English literature, Fiction, christian, general, Fiction, family life, general

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England

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Edition Notes

Includes bibiographical references.

Published in
New York
Series
Penguin classics deluxe edition
Genre
Fiction.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
823/.912
Library of Congress
PR6013.I24 C6 2006, PR6013.I24C6 2006

The Physical Object

Pagination
xix, 233 p. ;
Number of pages
233

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL17923974M
ISBN 10
0143039598
ISBN 13
9780141441597
LCCN
2006043497
OCLC/WorldCat
65516856
LibraryThing
7861018
Goodreads
92780
578463

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL2396118W

Source records

marc_openlibraries_sanfranciscopubliclibrary MARC record
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Better World Books record
Library of Congress MARC record
Internet Archive item record
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THE education bestowed on Flora Poste by her parents had been expensive, athletic and prolonged; and when they died within a few weeks of one another during the annual epidemic of the influenza or Spanish Plague which occurred in her twentieth year, she was discovered to possess every art and grace save that of earning her own living.
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