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Hailed as one of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World', Cold Comfort Farm is a wickedly clever and uproarious tale that the Sunday Times lauds as 'Brilliant ... very probably the funniest book ever written'.
When the astute and refined Flora Poste finds herself orphaned at nineteen, she embarks on a mission to impose order upon her eccentric relatives in the depths of Sussex. At the aptly-named Cold Comfort Farm, she encounters the Starkadders: a motley crew of characters including the remorseful Judith, fire-and-brimstone preacher Amos, his sons - the libidinous Seth and melancholic Reuben - the free-spirited Elfine, and the unhinged Aunt Ada Doom, who hasn't left her bedroom in two decades.
Flora, armed with an unwavering sense of propriety and an iron will, sets about reorganising the lives of her peculiar kin. The result is a masterful parody of rural melodrama and florid prose, cementing Cold Comfort Farm's place as one of the most beloved comic novels in literary history.
Described by Marian Keyes in the Guardian as 'Screamingly funny and wildly subversive', this Penguin Classics edition features an introduction by Lynne Truss, the witty wordsmith behind 'Eats, Shoots and Leaves'.
Should you find yourself tickled by Cold Comfort Farm's charm, you might also delight in George and Weedon Grossmith's 'Diary of a Nobody', another gem in the Penguin Classics collection.
Book ISBN: | 9780241418895 |
Book Weight: | 194g |
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