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| Author | Stella Gibbons |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Comic novel |
| Publisher | Longman |
Publication date | 8 September 1932 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
| Media type | Print (hardback) |
| Pages | xii, 307 pp |
| ISBN | 0-14-144159-3 (current Penguin Classics edition) |
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.[1] The novel was awarded the Femina Vie Heureuse Prize in 1933.[2]
- ^ Cooke, Rachel (6 August 2011). "Stella Gibbons: Cold Comfort Farm was just the beginning". The Observer. ISSN 0029-7712. Retrieved 29 July 2024.
- ^ "Cold Comfort Farm | English countryside, satire, rural life | Britannica". www.britannica.com. Retrieved 29 July 2024.