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 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons ... Penguin Books LtdNewest Review: ... downs and writing poetry, while nurturing an incomprehensible passion for the son of the manor, the decent but dim Richard ... more ... Hawk-Monitor. This passion is, for better or worse, unrequited and even unnoticed; "like most ideas, the idea would simply not have entered his head," as we are tellingly told.
The farm is also infested with numerous other Starkadders boasting forenames like Micah, Urk, Ezra and Harkaway. One could draw a family tree of sorts, but who would want to? There are also supernumerary retainers, like Adam Lambsbreath, who spends his time clettering dishes with a birch-twig, and Meriam Beetle, the hired girl, who s...more |
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Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons: Much Stirring in the Sticks (2009 words)
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This review was originally prompted by my being asked what I thought of the book Cold Comfort Farm. "It's very funny," I found myself replying without much thought, "but rather appalling." Later, I wondered whether the judgement was a bit glib. I hadn't, come to think of it, read the book for about forty years. Better read it again, I thought, to check. So I did. * The book * Cold Comfort Farm is a spoof. First published in 1932 it mercilessly lampooned the "rustic melodrama" school of novel-writing that was enjoying a vogue at the time. The immediate target was Mary Webb, the Shropshire-based writer whose work ... Read the complete review
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