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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Bantam Audio
Publication date
February 1, 2000
Binding
Cassette/Spoken Word
Edition
Unabridged
Book category
Adult Fiction
ISBN-13
9780553526851
ISBN-10
0553526855
Availability§
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Original list price
$18.00
Other format details
audio
§As reported by publisher
Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: A hilarious and merciless parody of rural melodramas and one of the best-loved comic novels of all time, Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons is beautifully repackaged as part of the Penguin Essentials range. 'We are not like other folk, maybe, but there have always been Starkadders at Cold Comfort Farm...' Sensible, sophisticated Flora Poste has been expensively educated to do everything but earn a living. When she is orphaned at twenty, she decides her only option is to descend on relatives - the doomed Starkadders at the aptly named Cold Comfort Farm. There is Judith in a scarlet shawl, heaving with remorse for an unspoken wickedness; raving old Ada Doom, who once saw something nasty in the woodshed; lustful Seth and despairing Reuben, Judith's two sons; and there is Amos, preaching fire and damnation to one and all. As the sukebind flowers, Flora takes each of the family in hand and brings order to their chaos. Cold Comfort Farm is a sharp and clever parody of the melodramatic and rural novel. 'Very probably the funniest book ever written' Sunday Times 'Screamingly funny and wildly subversive' Marian Keyes, Guardian 'Delicious ... Cold Comfort Farm has the sunniness of a P. G. Wodehouse and the comic aplomb of Evelyn Waugh's Scoop' Independent 'One of the finest parodies written in English...a wickedly brilliant skit' Robert Macfarlane, Guardian Stella Gibbons was born in London in 1902. She went to North London Collegiate School and studied journalism at University College, London. She then worked for ten years on various papers, including the Evening Standard. Her first publication was a book of poems, The Mountain Beast (1930), and her first novel, Cold Comfort Farm (1932), won the Femina Vie Heureuse Prize. Amongst her other novels are Miss Linsey and Pa (1936), Nightingale Wood (1938), Westwood (1946), Conference at Cold Comfort Farm (1949) and Beside the Pearly Water (1954). Stella Gibbons died in 1989.
Editions
Hardcover
Large print edition from Abc-Clio Inc (September 1, 1987)
9781850890935 | details & prices | List price $15.95
About: Cold Comfort Farm (Unabridged) by Stella Gibbons 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.
About: Cold Comfort Farm (Unabridged) by Stella Gibbons 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.
from Peter Smith Pub Inc (January 1, 1985)
9780844661483 | details & prices | 4.75 × 7.25 × 0.75 in. | 0.50 lbs | List price $19.30
About: Cold Comfort Farm (Unabridged) by Stella Gibbons 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.
About: Cold Comfort Farm (Unabridged) by Stella Gibbons 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.
Paperback
from Lightning Source Inc (August 21, 2013)
9788087830628 | details & prices | 136 pages | 7.25 × 9.25 × 0.25 in. | 0.60 lbs | List price $7.75
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from Bnpublishing.Com (October 30, 2008)
9781607960218 | details & prices | 122 pages | 6.00 × 9.00 × 0.25 in. | 0.45 lbs | List price $8.99
About: 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.
About: 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.
With Lynne Truss (other contributor) |
from Penguin Classics (March 28, 2006)
9780143039594 | details & prices | 233 pages | 5.75 × 8.50 × 0.75 in. | 0.65 lbs | List price $17.00
About: When a well-educated young socialite in 1930s England is left orphaned and unable to support herself at age twenty-two, she moves in with her eccentric relatives on their farm.
About: When a well-educated young socialite in 1930s England is left orphaned and unable to support herself at age twenty-two, she moves in with her eccentric relatives on their farm.
from Penguin Uk (June 1, 1999)
9780140274141 | details & prices | 4.75 × 7.25 × 1.00 in. | 0.30 lbs | List price $10.95
About: This title is a classic of its kind, a dazzling parody of the earthy, melodramatic novels of the period.
About: This title is a classic of its kind, a dazzling parody of the earthy, melodramatic novels of the period.
Reprint edition from Penguin USA (April 1, 1996)
9780140258134 | details & prices | 5.25 × 8.00 × 0.50 in. | 0.35 lbs | List price $10.95
About: When a well-educated young socialite in 1930s England is left orphaned and unable to support herself at age twenty-two, she moves in with her eccentric relatives on their farm
About: When a well-educated young socialite in 1930s England is left orphaned and unable to support herself at age twenty-two, she moves in with her eccentric relatives on their farm
Reissue edition from Penguin Classics (December 1, 1995)
9780140188691 | details & prices | 232 pages | 5.25 × 8.00 × 0.75 in. | 0.35 lbs | List price $14.00
About: When a well-educated young socialite in 1930s England is left orphaned and unable to support herself at age twenty-two, she moves in with her eccentric relatives on their farm
About: When a well-educated young socialite in 1930s England is left orphaned and unable to support herself at age twenty-two, she moves in with her eccentric relatives on their farm
With Top Cow Productions |
from Viking Pr 4.50 × 7.15 × 0.65 in. | 0.30 lbs | List price $7.00
This edition also contains The Art of Top Cow
About: Twenty-two-year old Flora Poste, expensively and expansively educated, recently orphaned, and without means of support, moves in with the farm family of Great Aunt Ada Doom, who saw something nasty in the woodshed
This edition also contains The Art of Top Cow
About: Twenty-two-year old Flora Poste, expensively and expansively educated, recently orphaned, and without means of support, moves in with the farm family of Great Aunt Ada Doom, who saw something nasty in the woodshed
Cassette/Spoken Word
The price comparison is for this edition
Unabridged edition from Bantam Audio (February 1, 2000)
9780553526851 | details & prices | List price $18.00
About: A hilarious and merciless parody of rural melodramas and one of the best-loved comic novels of all time, Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons is beautifully repackaged as part of the Penguin Essentials range.
About: A hilarious and merciless parody of rural melodramas and one of the best-loved comic novels of all time, Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons is beautifully repackaged as part of the Penguin Essentials range.
from G K Hall Audio Books (July 1, 1993)
9781560549055 | details & prices | 6.50 × 8.75 × 1.25 in. | 1.00 lbs | List price $64.95
About: A hilarious and merciless parody of rural melodramas and one of the best-loved comic novels of all time, Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons is beautifully repackaged as part of the Penguin Essentials range.
About: A hilarious and merciless parody of rural melodramas and one of the best-loved comic novels of all time, Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons is beautifully repackaged as part of the Penguin Essentials range.
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