Ebook {Epub PDF} Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons

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Cold Comfort Farm was first published by Longmans in , and was, according to the critic Lynne Truss, labelled “middlebrow”, to Gibbons’s disadvantage among the critics. But the book sold. Her first novel, Cold Comfort Farm, won the Femina Vie Heureuse Prize for A satire and parody of the pessimistic ruralism of Thomas Hardy, his followers and especially Precious Bain by Mary Webb -the "loam and lovechild" genre, as some called it, Cold Comfort Farm introduces a self-confident young woman, Stella Dorothea Gibbons was an English novelist, journalist, poet and short-story writer. Cold Comfort Farm is a comic novel by English author Stella Gibbons, published in It parodies the romanticised, sometimes doom-laden accounts of rural life popular at the time, by writers such as Mary Webb.