Dec 28, 2009

Cold Comfort Farm | Cold Comfort Farm

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Author: Stella Gibbons
First Published: 1932
Type of Work: Novel
Type of Plot: Parody
Time of Work: Early twentieth century
Setting: London and Sussex, England
Genres: Long fiction, Satire, Parody
Subjects: Love or romance, Twentieth century, Future, Religion, Rural or country life, England or English people, Farms, farmers, or farming, Wit or humor, London, Orphans or orphanages
Locales: London, England, Sussex, England

Characters Discussed

Flora Poste, a recently orphaned young woman, nineteen years old. She is left with an endowment of one hundred pounds a year. Because her expensive education has not prepared her to earn a living, she decides to leave London and stay with relatives until she finds someone she chooses to marry. She stays with the Starkadders, an aunt and various cousins who reside at Cold Comfort Farm in Howling, Sussex. Her relatives and the farmhands are a rude, filthy, and quarrelsome bunch; the farmhouse is deteriorating, and the livestock are neglected. Flora hears...

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Cold Comfort Farm | Cold Comfort Farm

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