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Stella Gibbons was a British novelist and poet who wrote Cold Comfort Farm, a comic parody of rural fiction. Learn about her life, career, and other novels, such as Westwood and Here Be Dragons.
Browse the list of books by Stella Gibbons, the author of Cold Comfort Farm and other novels. See ratings, reviews, editions, and genres for each book.
Cold Comfort Farm is a comic novel by 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.
Stella Gibbons was an English novelist, journalist, poet and short-story writer. She is best known for her satirical novel Cold Comfort Farm, which won the Femina Vie Heureuse Prize in 1933.
A humorous novel about a socialite who moves to a rural farm and tries to improve the lives of her relatives. Read reviews, ratings, genres, book details and more about this classic comedy by Stella Gibbons.
Aug 22, 1998 · Stella Gibbons is best remembered for her 1932 novel, Cold Comfort Farm, in which she parodies the melodramatic rural fiction of the 19th and early 20th centuries and satirises faddish...
May 21, 2015 · Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons, book of a lifetime: Wonderful, hilarious and uplifting. The book has a timeless quality that can't fail to amuse you, says Lesley Pearse
