Cold Comfort Farm in Never too Late to Read Classics

Nov 22, 2020 Chrissie rated it really liked it

Shelves: england, audible-uk, gothic, hf, classics, arts, 2020-read, humor, london, love

Extremely funny--a parody of great English classics, by authors such as Thomas Hardy, Mary Webb, the Brontë sisters and D.H. Lawrence. Gothic novels with their romance enveloped in doom and suspense are harpooned by wit and humor. Intellectuals and the literary community are satirized too.

The heroine is the lovely, recently orphaned nineteen-year-old Flora Poste. She has a head on her shoulders, and she uses it. When a calamity arises, when a problem needs to be solved, she doesn’t swoon or moa ...more

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Dec 08, 2010 Laura rated it really liked it

Shelves: 3ms, british-literature, fiction-20th-century, audio-books, read-2013, 1001-books-you-must-read-before-you, between-wars

From BBC Radio 4 Extra:
The adventures of Flora Poste, who embarks on a career as a parasite and moves in with the Starkadders of Howling

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Jun 05, 2022 Karen rated it really liked it

Shelves: 1001

I went into this book without reading any of the reviews, so I was pleasantly surprised what a wonderfully funny book this is.

Flora Poste is a well educated nineteen year old orphan, who has decided that she doesn't want to work. She wants to live with her relatives, and the only family that would take her were the Starkadders of Cold Comfort Farm, Howling, Sussex.

Ah, the satire, for this novel has everything that a Victorian novel has, including a mad woman in the attic. ...more

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Jun 06, 2012 Jenna Scribbles rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Adding this one to my all time favorite list. Amazing writing. Funny. Touching. Unlike anything I've ever read. Five stars without hesitation. ...more

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