Product Description: A delicious satire of provincial middle-class life in Britain in the 1920s and 1930s, this novel chronicles the rise and fall and rise of Mrs. Emmeline Lucas of Riseholm, known to her most intimate friends as Lucia. When her status as social queen of the village is threatened by the arrival of Olga Braceley, an opera singer without scruples, Lucia begins a lengthy and often hilarious campaign to derail the career of her rival...read more

Product Description: Sixteen years after she last set foot in the picturesque village of Howling, Flora Poste—the disobedient yet charming protagonist of Cold Comfort Farm—returns to the fray to help her relatives, the troubled Starkadders, who own Cold Comfort Farm...read more

Product Description: In this classic tale, 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. The proprietors, the dour Starkadder family, are tyrannized by Flora’s mysterious aunt, who controls the household from a locked room...read more