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0-14-144159-3 (current Penguin Classics edition) 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 .
Cold Comfort Farm is a 1995 British comedy film directed by John Schlesinger and produced by the BBC and Thames Television, an adaptation of Stella Gibbons ' 1932 book of the same name, the film stars Kate Beckinsale, Joanna Lumley, Ian McKellen and Rufus Sewell.
May 10, 1996 · Cold Comfort Farm: Directed by John Schlesinger. With Eileen Atkins, Kate Beckinsale, Sheila Burrell, Stephen Fry. A recently orphaned young woman goes to live with eccentric relatives in Sussex, where she sets about improving their gloomy lives.
Cold Comfort Farm, comic novel by Stella Gibbons, published in 1932, a successful parody of regional and rural fiction by such early 20th-century English writers as Mary Webb and D.H. Lawrence. A popular and clever work, Cold Comfort Farm was awarded the Femina Vie Heureuse Prize in 1933.
Cold Comfort Farm is a stinging satire and outrageously funny parody of the literature about rural English farm life, especially by Sheila Kaye-Smith, Mary Webb, and to a lesser extent, D.H. Lawrence and Thomas Hardy.
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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, and the proprietors, the dour starkadder family, are tyrannized by Flora's mysterious aunt, who controls the household from a locked room.
- Stella Gibbons
