Cold Comfort Farm

Informationen zum Autor Stella Dorothea Gibbons  (1902-1989) was born in London. A novelist, poet and short-story writer, her first novel,  Cold Comfort Farm , won the Femina Vie Heuruse Prize for 1933. Amongst her other novels are  Miss Linsey and Pa , Nightingale Wood ,  Westwood ,  Conference at Cold Comfort Farm , and  Beside the Pearly Water  (1954). Lynne Truss  is a writer and journalist. She is the author of the number one bestseller,  Eats, Shoots & Leaves , which has sold more than two million copies, won the national British Book Award, and was on the  New York Times  bestseller list or forty-five weeks. She lives in Brighton, England. Roz Chast is a regular cartoonist for The New Yorker , and her work has also appeared in Redbook , Scientific American , Fast Company , and the Harvard Business Review . Her memoir, Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant? , was a finalist for the National Book Award. Klappentext 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").

Product details

• Authors: Stella Gibbons
• Assisted by: Roz Chast (Illustration)
• Publisher: Penguin Books USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.03.2006
• EAN: 9780143039594
• ISBN: 978-0-14-303959-4
• No. of pages: 233
• Dimensions: 143 mm x 212 mm x 16 mm
• Series: Penguin Deluxe Classics; Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition; Deluxe Classics; Penguin Classics Deluxe Editio; Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition; Deluxe Classics; Penguin Deluxe Classics
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature