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Flora Poste wurde in jeder Kunst und Fertigkeit unterrichtet, nur nicht in der, für den eigenen Lebensunterhalt zu sorgen. Da ihre Eltern ihr weit weniger vermacht haben als erwartet, ist sie gezwungen, eine Weile bei ihren Verwandten im tiefsten Sussex unterzukommen. Schnell zeigt sich, dass der Alltag auf der Cold Comfort Farm die schlimmsten Vorurteile einer neunzehnjährigen Londonerin über das Landleben bestä­tigt. Was sich nämlich ihre Ve...

Cold Comfort Farm is Gibbons' brilliant parody of the pastoral novel, Enbury Heath is her novel for Londoners.Stella Gibbons and her little brothers spent many years living in Vale Cottage in Hampstead Heath. This wonderfully funny and satirical novel is the fictionalised account of that time. The spiritual predecessor to Gibbons' best-known novel Cold Comfort Farm, Enbury Heath muses on childhood and family, nature and the city, money trouble...

...for the first time in her life, she was living as she had always unknowingly wanted to live: in freedom and solitude, with an animal for close companion. Her new life had acted upon her like a strong and delicious drug.Ivy Gover, a curmudgeonly middle-aged charwoman with some slightly witchy talents, inherits a rural cottage in Buckinghamshire and takes up residence near the tiny village of Little Warby. Having settled in with a rescued dog...

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Terence danced, alas, only fairly well. She tried to hide the fact from herself.Una Beaumont, nineteen years old and desperate to leave the small Cornish town of Tregulla to try her luck on the London stage, finds her hopes dashed by her mother's sudden death and its financial implications. She broods about, working with her father on their small flower farm, but her boredom melts with the arrival of a womanizing artist, Terrence Willows, and ...

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Stella Gibbons was born in London in 1902. She went to the North London Collegiate School and studied journalism at University College, London. She then worked for ten years on various papers, including the Evening Standard. Stella Gibbons is the author of twenty-five novels, three volumes of short stories, and four volumes of poetry. Her first publication was a book of poems, The Mountain Beast (1930) and her first novel Cold Comfort Farm (19...

One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World''Brilliant ... very probably the funniest book ever written' Sunday TimesWhen 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, ...

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Brother and sister, Constance and Kenneth Fielding live in calm respectability, just out of reach of London and the Blitz. But when a series of uninvited guests converge upon them - from a Balkan exile to Ken's old flame and the siblings' own raffish father - the household struggles to preserve its precious peace.

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A lost novel from the author of "Cold Comfort Farm", this has never been published before. It was discovered by Gibbons's daughter in 2014, and ranges from the British countryside to the Middle East.

Encuadernación: Rústica con solapasStella Gibbons ya nos fascinó con las aventuras de «La hija de Robert Poste» y con esa moderna fábula londinense de la Cenicienta titulada «Westwood». Ahora, en lo que se ha convertido en una de las grandes sensaciones del año en el Reino Unido, una Gibbons en estado de gracia nos ofrece «Navidades en Cold Comfort Farm»: dieciséis chispeantes y deliciosas historias repletas de personajes que viven rodeados de...

A wickedly funny and charming sequel to "Cold Comfort Farm". Robert Poste's child is back at the farm, but all is not well. Flora finds it transformed into a twee haven filled with Toby jugs and peasant pottery. Reissue.

Set in wartime Highgate, London, this tells the story of Margaret Steggles, a plain and bookish girl whose mother has told her that she is 'not the type that attracts men'. A delightfully wistful tale of romantic entanglements and self reliance.

What better place to spend the holidays than Cold Comfort Farm? Available for the first time since its original publication more than fifty years ago, "Christmas at Cold Comfort Farm" is a charming collection whose hilarious title story features Christmas dinner with the Starkadders before Flora's arrival. With Adam playing Santa while draped in Mrs. Starkadders's shawls, the family shares their traditional "Christmas pudding"-a m?lange contai...