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Cold Comfort Farm

When expensively educated Flora Poste is orphaned, she decides to descend on her relatives, the Starkadders, at Cold Comfort Farm. Full of hearty determination and bolstered by the rural surroundings, Flora feels it is her duty to bring order to chaos. TWENTIETH CENTURY CLASSICS series.

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  • "Littérature de jeunesse en langue anglaise."
  • "A hilarious parody of D.H. Lawrence's and Thomas Hardy's earthy, melodramatic novels, the deliriously entertaining "Cold Comfort Farm" is "very probably the funniest book ever written" (The Sunday Times)."
  • "When expensively educated Flora Poste is orphaned, she decides to descend on her relatives, the Starkadders, at Cold Comfort Farm. Full of hearty determination and bolstered by the rural surroundings, Flora feels it is her duty to bring order to chaos. TWENTIETH CENTURY CLASSICS series."@en
  • "The farm lies in the shadow of a hill, and the farmyard rarely sees the sun, even in summer, when the sukebind hangs heavy in the branches. Here live the Starkadders - Aunt Ada Doom, Judith, Amos, Seth, Reuben, Elfine ... They lead messy, untidy lives, full of dark thoughts, moody silences, and sudden noisy quarrels. that is, until their attractive young cousin arrives from London. Neat, sensible, efficient, Flora Poste cannot bear messes (they are so uncivilized). She begins to tidy up the Starkadders' lives at once ... - Back cover."
  • "In this distressingly frivolous story, Miss Gibbons points her satirical finger at a certain type of much-read, earthy, passionate novel - the kind of story in which peasants have babies in cowsheds and push each other down wells."@en
  • "Theatre program."
  • "Mystery broods over Cold Comfort Farm where Flora Poste's father was done wrong. Visiting Flora must come to terms with Seth's unbuttoned shirt, feckless, pointless and graceless cows, something unspeakable in the woolshed, and old Aunt Starkadder."@en
  • "When 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, an eccentric group of relatives suffering from a wide variety of ailments. But Flora loves nothing better than to organize other people."
  • "When sensible, sophisticated Flora Poste is orphaned, she decides to descend on her relatives at Cold Comfort Farm, and put their lives in order."@en
  • "A hilarious parody of D.H. Lawrence's and Thomas Hardy's earthy, melodramatic novels, the deliriously entertaining "Cold Comfort Farm" is "very probably the funniest book ever written" (The Sunday Times.)."
  • "A hilarious parody of D.H. Lawrence's and Thomas Hardy's earthy, melodramatic novels, the deliriously entertaining "Cold Comfort Farm" is "very probably the funniest book ever written" (The Sunday Times.)."@en
  • "A 20-year-old orphan rearranges the lives of her rural relatives."@en
  • "Society-girl Flora Poste is orphaned with only a hundred pounds a year to her name. So she descends on her eccentric country kinfolk, the Starkadders of Cold Comfort Farm. There's Judith, loony with guilt and grief; Amos, a fire-breathing preacher; Seth, the rustic gigolo; and Rueben, who wants to "step into dead men's shoes." And upstairs batty Aunt Ada Doom presides over all of them. This boisterous tale chronicles Flora's hilarious attempts to bring order to complete chaos."@en
  • "Theatre 62, 145 Burbridge Road, Hilton, 18-20, 22-27 June [1992]."
  • "When a well-educated young socialite in 1930s England is left orphaned and unable to support herself at age twenty-two, she moves in with her eccentric relatives on their farm."
  • "Flora Poste, a 1930s London socialite, descends on her eccentric country relatives."@en
  • "Presented by Independent Theatre Inc.; adapted and directed by Rob Croser; play by Stella Gibbons."

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  • "Domestic fiction"@en
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
  • "Domestic fiction"
  • "Readers"
  • "Satire"@en
  • "Pastoral fiction"@en
  • "Pastoral fiction"
  • "Humorous fiction"@en
  • "Humorous fiction"
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Humorous stories"
  • "Humorous stories"@en
  • "Classic novel"@en
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Romans (teksten)"

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  • "Cold comfort farm : [novel]"
  • "Cold Comfort Farm : Roman"
  • "La hija de Robert Poste"@es
  • "La hija de Robert Poste"
  • "Cold Comfort Farm"@en
  • "Cold Comfort Farm"
  • "La Hija de Robert Poste"
  • "Cold compfort farm"
  • "Cold comfort Farm"
  • "Cold comfort farm : the comic classic of rural life"
  • "Cold Comfort Farm : [theatre program]"
  • "Cold comfort farm"@es
  • "Cold comfort farm"
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  • "Cold Comfort farm"
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