Cold Comfort Farm : (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) (Penguin Classics Deluxe Editio)
Cold Comfort Farm : (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) (Penguin Classics Deluxe Editio)
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Book Description
A hilarious parody of D. H. Lawrence and Thomas Hardy's earthy, melodramatic novels, the deliriously entertaining Cold Comfort Farm is “very probably the funniest book ever written” (The Sunday Times).
About the Author
Stella Gibbons (1902-1989), novelist, poet, and short-story writer, was born in London. Cold Comfort Farm, her first novel, won the Femina Vie Heureuse Prize. Her other novels include Nightingale Wood, Westwood, and Beside the Pearly Waters.
Lynne Truss, author of the bestseller Eats, Shoots & Leaves, is a writer and journalist.
Roz Chast is a regular cartoonist for the New Yorker, and her work has also appeared in Redbook, Scientific American, Fast Company, and the Harvard Business Review.
Cold Comfort Farm: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) (Penguin Classics Deluxe Editio),Stella Gibbons,Lynne Truss,Penguin Classics,0143039598,20th Century English Novel And Short Story,Domestic fiction,England,Fiction,Fiction - General,Humorous,Humorous fiction,Literary,Fiction / Literary
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