Cold Comfort Farm

Opis książki:

In Gibbonss classic tale, a resourceful young heroine finds herself in the gloomy, overwrought world of a Hardy or Bronte novel and proceeds to organize everyone out of their romantic tragedies into the pleasures of normal life. Flora Poste, orphaned at 19, chooses to live with relatives at Cold Comfort Farm in Sussex, where cows are named Feckless, Aimless, Pointless, and Graceless, and the proprietors, the dour Starkadder family, are tyrannized by Floras mysterious aunt, who controls the household from a locked room. Floras confident and clever management of an alarming cast of eccentrics is only half the pleasure of this novel. The other half is Gibbonss wicked sendup of romantic cliches, from the mad woman in the attic to the druidical peasants with their West Country accents and mystical herbs. Anne Masseys skillful rendering of a variety of accents will make this story more accessible to American audiences. Recommended for both literary and popular collections.

Książka "Cold Comfort Farm" - Stella Gibbons - oprawa miękka - Wydawnictwo Penguin Books Ltd (UK). Książka posiada 240 stron i została wydana w 2011 r.