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Cold Comfort Farm
- Author
- Stella Gibbons
- Narrator
- Pearl Mackie
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Publish Date
- 25 June 2020
- Run Time
- 8 hours 6 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Rating
- 5.0 (1 review)
What to expect
Brought to you by Penguin.
This Penguin Classic is performed by Pearl Mackie, best known for her role in Dr Who.
When sensible, sophisticated Flora Poste is orphaned at nineteen, she decides her only choice is to descend upon relatives in deepest Sussex. At the aptly named Cold Comfort Farm, she meets the doomed Starkadders: cousin Judith, heaving with remorse for unspoken wickedness; Amos, preaching fire and damnation; their sons, lustful Seth and despairing Reuben; child of nature Elfine; and crazed old Aunt Ada Doom, who has kept to her bedroom for the last twenty years. But Flora loves nothing better than to organize other people. Armed with common sense and a strong will, she resolves to take each of the family in hand. A hilarious and merciless parody of rural melodramas, Cold Comfort Farm (1932) is one of the best-loved comic novels of all time.
User Reviews
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An excellent reading- different characters and accents some very well. A classic- amusing and lighthearted.
cbroster 2025-06-27
Details
- Author
- Stella Gibbons
- Narrator
- Pearl Mackie
- Duration
- 8 hours 6 minutes
- Release Date
- 25 June 2020
- ISBN
- 9780241456125
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Genre
- Classic fiction: literary and general, Satirical fiction and parodies
- Rating
- 5.0(1 review)
- Narration
- 5.0(1 review)
Synopsis
Brought to you by Penguin.This Penguin Classic is performed by Pearl Mackie, best known for her role in Dr Who.When sensible, sophisticated Flora Poste is orphaned at nineteen, she decides her only choice is to descend upon relatives in deepest Sussex. At the aptly named Cold Comfort Farm, she meets the doomed Starkadders: cousin Judith, heaving with remorse for unspoken wickedness; Amos, preaching fire and damnation; their sons, lustful Seth and despairing Reuben; child of nature Elfine; and crazed old Aunt Ada Doom, who has kept to her bedroom for the last twenty years. But Flora loves nothing better than to organize other people. Armed with common sense and a strong will, she resolves to take each of the family in hand. A hilarious and merciless parody of rural melodramas, Cold Comfort Farm (1932) is one of the best-loved comic novels of all time.
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