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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]