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#ColdComfortFarm Cold Comfort Farm
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. Gibbons was working for the Evening Read More..
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Description 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. Gibbons was working for the Evening Standard in 1928 when they decided to serialise Webb's first novel, The Golden Arrow, and Gibbons was given the job of summarising the plot of earlier instalments. Other novelists in the tradition parodied by Cold Comfort Farm are D. H. Lawrence, Sheila Kaye-Smith and Thomas Hardy; and going further back, Mary E Mann and the Brontë sisters. Cold Comfort Farm won the Femina Vie Heureuse Prize for 1933.Cold Comfort Farm ISBN 0-14-000140-9 In 2003, the novel was listed at number 88 on the BBC's survey The Big Read. "BBC – The Big Read". BBC. April 2003, Retrieved 18 November 2012
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Name Cold Comfort Farm
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Authors Stella Gibbons
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Genre Comic novel
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Pages xii, 307 pp
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Isbn 0-14-144159-3
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Pub_date 8 September 1932
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