by Stella Gibbons · Random House UK · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780099599890
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«Christmas at Cold Comfort Farm» is a collection of stories by Stella Gibbons, published by Random House UK in paperback (298 pages, in English).
Collection of stories by Stella Gibbons whose title refers to a Christmas at Cold Comfort Farm before the arrival of Flora Poste. The main story parodies chaotic family celebrations: Adam Lambsbreath dresses up as Santa Claus, there are inappropriate gifts, unpleasant surprises in the pudding and Aunt Ada Doom gives orders at dinner.
Collection in the Cold Comfort Farm series, originally published in 1940 as «Christmas at Cold Comfort Farm and Other Stories»; this edition includes an introduction by Alexander McCall Smith.
For readers of British classics and literary humor; also fits as Christmas reading due to its setting and parodic tone.
Stella Dorothea Gibbons was an English author, journalist, and poet. She established her reputation with her first novel, Cold Comfort Farm (1932), which has been reprinted many times. Although she was active as a writer for half a century, none of her later 22 novels or other literary works—which included a sequel to Cold Comfort Farm—achieved the same critical or popular success. Much of her work was long out of print before a modest revival in the 21st century.
