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Bassett by Stella Gibbons
Category: Classic Fiction
The Tower Guesthouse lies nestled between the beech woods of Buckinghamshire. It is run by the unlikely partnership of balmy Miss Padsoe and young, cockney Miss Baker. Divided by class and age, they are determined to dislike each other.
Christmas at Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
Category: Classic
This title is presented with an Introduction by Alexander Mccall Smith. This is a glorious collection of stories from the author of "Cold Comfort Farm". The title story tells of a typical Christmas at the farm before the coming of Flora Poste. It is a parody of the worst sort of family Christmas: Adam L ...Show more
Christmas at Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
Category: Fiction
This is a glorious collection of stories from the author of "Cold Comfort Farm". The title story tells of a typical Christmas at the farm before the coming of Flora Poste. It is a parody of the worst sort of family Christmas: Adam Lambsbreath dresses up as Father Christmas in two of Judith's red shawls. ...Show more
Christmas at Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
Category: Classic Fiction
Available for the first time since its original publication more than fifty years ago, "Christmas at Cold Comfort Farm" is a charming collection whose hilarious title story features Christmas dinner with the Starkadders before Flora's arrival. With Adam playing Santa while draped in Mrs. Starkadders's s ...Show more
Christmas at Cold Comfort Farm (vintage Christmas) by Stella Gibbons
Category: Classic
A glorious collection of stories from the author of Cold Comfort Farm. The title story tells of a typical Christmas at the farm before the coming of Flora Poste. It is a parody of the worst sort of family Christmas: Adam Lambsbreath dresses up as Father Christmas in two of Judith's red shawls. There are ...Show more
Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Twentieth Century Classics
Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World' 'Brilliant ... very probably the funniest book ever written' Sunday Times 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 Fa ...Show more
Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
When the sukebind is in bud, orphaned Flora Poste, expensively, athletically and lengthily educated, descends on her relatives at Cold Comfort Farm. There are plenty of them - Judith, alone in her grief; Amos, called by God; Seth, smouldering with sex; Elfine, who needs a little polish; and, of course, ...Show more
Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
Category: Fiction
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. Flora Poste, orphaned at 19, chooses to live with relatives at Cold Comfor ...Show more
Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition Ser.
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 damn ...Show more
Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Essentials
'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 Sta ...Show more
Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
Category: Classics
'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 S ...Show more