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Cold Comfort Farm

(Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Penguin Classics Graphic Deluxe Editions

Stella Gibbons - Author

Lynne Truss - Introduction by

Roz Chast - Jacket Illustrator

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ISBN 9780143039594 | 256 pages | 28 Mar 2006 | Penguin Classics | 6.02 x 9.21in | 18 - AND UP
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Stella Gibbons' novel is a wickedly funny portrait of British rural life in the 1930s. Flora, a recently orphaned socialite, moves in with her country relatives, the gloomy Starkadders of Cold Comfort Farm.

  • A Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition with French flaps, rough front, and luxurious packaging
  • Features an introduction from Lynne Truss and cover illustrations by Roz Chast
“ Quite simply one of the funniest satirical novels of the last century.”
—Nancy Pearl, NPR’s Morning Edition

“ Delicious . . . Cold Comfort Farm has the sunniness of a P. G. Wodehouse and the comic aplomb of Evelyn Waugh’s Scoop.”
—The Independent (London)

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