Cold Comfort A Novel
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Cold Comfort Farm
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Author : Clare West
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998-01-01
Cold Comfort Farm written by Clare West and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-01-01 with Readers categories.
A school reader for secondary pupils, in the OXFORD BOOKWORMS. BLACK SERIES STAGE 6. This new series offers students at all levels the opportunity to extend their reading and appreciation of English.
Christmas At Cold Comfort Farm
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Author : Stella Gibbons
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2011-11-10
Christmas At Cold Comfort Farm written by Stella Gibbons and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-11-10 with Fiction categories.
Indulge in a feel-good collection of stories from the author of Cold Comfort Farm. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH The title story tells of a typical Christmas at the farm before the coming of Flora Poste. It is a parody of the worst sort of family Christmas: Adam Lambsbreath dresses up as Father Christmas in two of Judith's red shawls. There are unsuitable presents, unpleasant insertions into the pudding and Aunt Ada Doom orders Amos to carve the turkey, adding: 'Ay, would it were a vulture, 'twere more fitting!' 'Stella Gibbons is the Jane Austen of the 20th century' Lynne Truss, author of the Constable Twitten series.
Cold Comfort Farm
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Author : Stella Gibbons
language : en
Publisher: Aegitas
Release Date : 2020-05-05
Cold Comfort Farm written by Stella Gibbons and has been published by Aegitas this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-05-05 with Fiction categories.
Cold Comfort Farm is a comic novel by English author 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. Following the death of her parents, the book and 's heroine, Flora Poste, finds she is possessed "of every art and grace save that of earning her own living". She decides to take advantage of the fact that "no limits are set, either by society or one and 's own conscience, to the amount one may impose on one and 's relatives", and settles on visiting her distant relatives at the isolated Cold Comfort Farm in the fictional village of Howling in Sussex. The inhabitants of the farm – Aunt Ada Doom, the Starkadders, and their extended family and workers – feel obliged to take her in to atone for an unspecified wrong once done to her father.
Nightingale Wood
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Author : Stella Gibbons
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2010-04-27
Nightingale Wood written by Stella Gibbons and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-04-27 with Fiction categories.
A sly and satirical fairytale by the author of Cold Comfort Farm Unavailable for decades, Stella Gibbons's Nightingale Wood is a delightfully modern romance ripe for rediscovery by the many fans of Cold Comfort Farm. Poor, lovely Viola has been left penniless and alone after her late husband's demise, and is forced to live with his family in their joyless home. Its occupants are nearly insufferable: Mr. Withers is a tyrannical old miser; Mrs. Withers dismisses her as a common shop girl; and Viola's sisters-in-law, Madge and Tina, are too preoccupied with their own troubles to give her much thought. Only the prospect of the upcoming charity ball can lift her spirits-especially as Victor Spring, the local prince charming, will be there. But Victor's intentions towards the young widow are, in short, not quite honorable.
Conference At Cold Comfort Farm
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Author : Stella Gibbons
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2011-08-04
Conference At Cold Comfort Farm written by Stella Gibbons and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-08-04 with Fiction categories.
Robert Poste's child is back at Cold Comfort Farm. But all is not well. Flora finds the farm transformed into a twee haven filled with Toby jugs and peasant pottery, and rooms labelled 'Quiete Retreate' and 'Greate laundrie'. It is, Flora winces, 'exactly like being locked in the Victoria and Albert Museum after closing time'. Worse, the farm is hosting a conference of the pretentious International Thinkers Group - a group made up of the 'sadistic owl' Mr Peccavi, loathsome Mr Mybug and the overpowering Mrs Ernestine Thump. And worst of all, there are no Starkadders at Cold Comfort Farm. All the he-cousins have gone abroad to make their fortunes and the female cousins are having a pretty thin time of it. Once again the sensible Flora decides to take the situation in hand.
Precious Bane
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Author : Mary Webb
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1928
Precious Bane written by Mary Webb and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1928 with categories.
Cold Comfort
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Author : David R. Slavitt
language : en
Publisher: Methuen Publishing
Release Date : 1980-01-01
Cold Comfort written by David R. Slavitt and has been published by Methuen Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980-01-01 with Fiction categories.
Incensed over his son's death during a fraternity initiation, widower Stanley Miller meticulously plots his course for revenge when the autopsy report reveals that his son's death was no accident
Cold Comfort
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Author : Quentin Bates
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2012-03-15
Cold Comfort written by Quentin Bates and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-03-15 with Fiction categories.
'Superior crime fiction set in Iceland' The Times 'As chilling as an Icelandic winter' S. J. Bolton Following her promotion and working now from Reykjavik, Gunnhildur is given responsibility for two cases - the first in tracking down an escaped convict who's keen to settle old scores, and the other, the murder of a TV fitness presenter in her city centre apartment. With the police short staffed and underfunded following the financial crash, Gunnhildur and her team set about delving into the backgrounds of both, where they uncover some unwelcome secrets and some influential friends of both who have no wish to be in the public eye. Set in an Iceland that is coming to terms with the deepening recession, Gunnhildur has to take stock of the whirlwind changes that have taken place as she investigates criminals at opposite ends of the social scale as some uncomfortable links appear between the two cases. The second dark and atmospheric thriller in Quentin Bates's Icelandic crime series. A chilling page-turner perfect for fans of Jo Nesbo, Henning Mankell and Søren Sveistrup's The Chestnut Man. Praise for Quentin Bates: 'A great read - leaves you craving the next installment' Yrsa Sigurðardóttir 'A perfect book to curl up with in front of the fire' The Bookbag 'Well written and absorbing' Woman's Way 'Captures the chilly spirit of Nordic crime fiction . . . Fans of Arnaldur Indridason's Reykjavík mysteries will want to add Bates to their reading lists' Booklist '[A] crackling fiction debut ... palpable authenticity' Publishers Weekly 'A superb new series' Eurocrime
Very Cold People
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Author : Sarah Manguso
language : en
Publisher: Hogarth
Release Date : 2022-02-08
Very Cold People written by Sarah Manguso and has been published by Hogarth this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-02-08 with Fiction categories.
The masterly debut novel from “an exquisitely astute writer” (The Boston Globe), about growing up in—and out of—the suffocating constraints of small-town America. “Compact and beautiful . . . This novel bordering on a novella punches above its weight.”—The New York Times “Very Cold People reminded me of My Brilliant Friend.”—The New Yorker ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker, NPR, Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, Good Housekeeping “My parents didn’t belong in Waitsfield, but they moved there anyway.” For Ruthie, the frozen town of Waitsfield, Massachusetts, is all she has ever known. Once home to the country’s oldest and most illustrious families—the Cabots, the Lowells: the “first, best people”—by the tail end of the twentieth century, it is an unforgiving place awash with secrets. Forged in this frigid landscape Ruthie has been dogged by feelings of inadequacy her whole life. Hers is no picturesque New England childhood but one of swap meets and factory seconds and powdered milk. Shame blankets her like the thick snow that regularly buries nearly everything in Waitsfield. As she grows older, Ruthie slowly learns how the town’s prim facade conceals a deeper, darker history, and how silence often masks a legacy of harm—from the violence that runs down the family line to the horrors endured by her high school friends, each suffering a fate worse than the last. For Ruthie, Waitsfield is a place to be survived, and a girl like her would be lucky to get out alive. In her eagerly anticipated debut novel, Sarah Manguso has written, with characteristic precision, a masterwork on growing up in—and out of—the suffocating constraints of a very old, and very cold, small town. At once an ungilded portrait of girlhood at the crossroads of history and social class as well as a vital confrontation with an all-American whiteness where the ice of emotional restraint meets the embers of smoldering rage, Very Cold People is a haunted jewel of a novel from one of our most virtuosic literary writers.
Cold Comfort
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Author : M. D. Lake
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1990
Cold Comfort written by M. D. Lake and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with O'Neill, Peggy (Fictitious character) categories.