Cold Comfort Farm / Stella Gibbons ; with an introduction by Lynne Truss.
When sensible, sophisticated Flora Past 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 unpsoken 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.--back cover.
Record details
- ISBN: 0141441593
- ISBN: 0143039598
- ISBN: 9780141441597
- ISBN: 9780143039594
- Physical Description: xix, 233 pages ; 21 cm.
- Publisher: New York : Penguin Books, 2006.
- Copyright: ©2006
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- Includes bibiographical references.
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- Farm life > Fiction.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Hampton B. Allen Library | FIC GIBBONS (Text) | 18198000475741 | Adult Fiction Paperback | Available | - |
| Lenoir Library | F GIBBONS Stella (Text) | 50669013408589 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Macon County Public Library | F GIBBONS (Text) | 39493107734529 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Pasquotank Library Main | F GIB (Text) | 39488101346148 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Roseboro Public Library | F Gibbons (Text) | 810600000054912 | Adult Fiction | In transit | - |
| Rural Hall Branch | FIC Gibbons, Stella (Text) | 0112515684739 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Statesville Main Library | F GIBBONS (Text) | 33114016835753 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Statesville Main Library | F GIBBONS (Text) | 33114016835761 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Transylvania County Library | FIC GIB (Text) | 38079101881282 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
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When sensible, sophisticated Flora Past 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 unpsoken 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.--back cover.
