Cold Comfort Farm (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Description

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 damnation; their sons, lustful Seth and despairing Reuben; child of nature Elfine; and crazed old Aunt Ada Doom, who has kept to her bedroom for the last twenty years. But Flora loves nothing better than to organize other people. Armed with common sense and a strong will, she resolves to take each of the family in hand. A hilarious and merciless parody of rural melodramas, Cold Comfort Farm (1932) is one of the best-loved comic novels of all time.

First Sentence

THE education bestowed on Flora Poste by her parents had been expensive, athletic and prolonged; and when they died within a few weeks of one another during the annual epidemic of the influenza or Spanish Plague which occurred in her twentieth year, she was discovered to possess every art and grace save that of earning her own living.

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Other Editions

• Cold Comfort Farm (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)Penguin Classics2006-03-28
• Cold comfort farmLongmans1932-01-01
• Cold Comfort farmLongmans,Green and co.1932-01-01
• Cold comfort farmLongmans1933-01-01
• Cold Comfort farm.Longmans, Green1934-01-01
• Cold comfort farmPenguin Books1938-01-01