Christmas At Cold Comfort Farm And Other Stories
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Author | : Stella Gibbons |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 219 |
Release | : 2011-11-29 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1101565578 |
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 shawls, the family shares their traditional "Christmas pudding"-a mélange containing random objects of doom foretelling the coming year: a coffin nail for death, a bad sixpence for financial ruin, and a menthol cone to indicate that the lucky recipient will go "blind wi' headache." These lively tales will delight anyone who loves Stella Gibbons and her signature wit.
Author | : Clare West |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 123 |
Release | : 1998-01-01 |
Genre | : Readers |
ISBN | : 9780194228374 |
A school reader for secondary pupils, in the OXFORD BOOKWORMS. BLACK SERIES STAGE 6. This new series offers students at all levels the opportunity to extend their reading and appreciation of English.
Author | : Stella Gibbons |
Publisher | : Aegitas |
Total Pages | : 209 |
Release | : 2020-05-05 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0369403045 |
Cold Comfort Farm is a comic novel by English author Stella Gibbons, published in 1932. It parodies the romanticised, sometimes doom-laden accounts of rural life popular at the time, by writers such as Mary Webb. Following the death of her parents, the book and 's heroine, Flora Poste, finds she is possessed "of every art and grace save that of earning her own living". She decides to take advantage of the fact that "no limits are set, either by society or one and 's own conscience, to the amount one may impose on one and 's relatives", and settles on visiting her distant relatives at the isolated Cold Comfort Farm in the fictional village of Howling in Sussex. The inhabitants of the farm – Aunt Ada Doom, the Starkadders, and their extended family and workers – feel obliged to take her in to atone for an unspecified wrong once done to her father.
Author | : Stella Gibbons |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 2010-04-27 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1101567570 |
A sly and satirical fairytale by the author of Cold Comfort Farm Unavailable for decades, Stella Gibbons's Nightingale Wood is a delightfully modern romance ripe for rediscovery by the many fans of Cold Comfort Farm. Poor, lovely Viola has been left penniless and alone after her late husband's demise, and is forced to live with his family in their joyless home. Its occupants are nearly insufferable: Mr. Withers is a tyrannical old miser; Mrs. Withers dismisses her as a common shop girl; and Viola's sisters-in-law, Madge and Tina, are too preoccupied with their own troubles to give her much thought. Only the prospect of the upcoming charity ball can lift her spirits-especially as Victor Spring, the local prince charming, will be there. But Victor's intentions towards the young widow are, in short, not quite honorable.
Author | : Stella Gibbons |
Publisher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 183 |
Release | : 2011-08-04 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1446499146 |
Robert Poste's child is back at Cold Comfort Farm. But all is not well. Flora finds the farm transformed into a twee haven filled with Toby jugs and peasant pottery, and rooms labelled 'Quiete Retreate' and 'Greate laundrie'. It is, Flora winces, 'exactly like being locked in the Victoria and Albert Museum after closing time'. Worse, the farm is hosting a conference of the pretentious International Thinkers Group - a group made up of the 'sadistic owl' Mr Peccavi, loathsome Mr Mybug and the overpowering Mrs Ernestine Thump. And worst of all, there are no Starkadders at Cold Comfort Farm. All the he-cousins have gone abroad to make their fortunes and the female cousins are having a pretty thin time of it. Once again the sensible Flora decides to take the situation in hand.
Author | : Mary Webb |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 1928 |
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Author | : Marcia Willett |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2012-10-30 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1250023572 |
The tender story of a boy, his father, his grandmother, and the bond they form over Christmas "We're all pilgrims," he said thoughtfully. "One way or another, aren't we? Always searching for something." Twelfth night - time to put away the Christmas angel. A new year dawns, and everything seems to be falling into place for Dossie. Her grown son Clem and his adorable five-year-old son Jakey have moved to Cornwall to be closer to her. She runs her own successful catering business. All she needs now is some better luck in her romantic life. Complementing Dossie's rather unconventional family set-up is the wonderfully eccentric Janna: a warm-hearted, generous woman who looks after the quirky nuns of the local convent – and little Jakey. With humour, kindness and the support of friendship, they form a tight bond. But the Sisters' life as they know it is thrown into doubt when an avaricious property developer starts prowling around their beautiful, historic home. Will this close-knit unit who so depend on each other still be together next Christmas? And what will they have learnt about the true meaning of family, and about having somewhere you really belong? Find out in Marcia Willett's touching and timeless holiday tale, Christmas in Cornwall.
Author | : Stella Gibbons |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 221 |
Release | : 1970-01-01 |
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ISBN | : 9780340105702 |
Author | : Stella Gibbons |
Publisher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : London (England) |
ISBN | : 009952936X |
In the years after World War Two, Nell Sely, child of the forgotten generation, wanders blind through 1950s bohemian London, smoke-filled jazz clubs and bittersweet coffee bars in search of romantic idyll, delving into the dark backstreets of squalid yet splendid London.
Author | : Stella Gibbons |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 1951 |
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