Christmas at Cold Comfort Farm
Stella Gibbons
Available for the first time since its original publication more than fifty years ago, Christmas at Cold Comfort Farm is a charming collection whose hilarious title story features Christmas dinner with the Starkadders before Flora's arrival...These lively tales will delight anyone who loves Stella Gibbons and her signature wit. Indulge in this feel-good collection of stories from the author of Cold Comfort Farm.
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH
The title story tells of a typical Christmas at the farm before the coming of Flora Poste. It is a parody of the worst sort of family Christmas: Adam Lambsbreath dresses up as Father Christmas in two of Judith's red shawls. There are unsuitable presents, unpleasant insertions into the pudding and Aunt Ada Doom orders Amos to carve the turkey, adding: 'Ay, would it were a vulture, 'twere more fitting!'
'Stella Gibbons is the Jane Austen of the 20th century' Lynne Truss, author of the Constable Twitten series.
類別:
年:
2011
版本:
New ed.
出版商:
Random House
語言:
english
頁數:
322
ISBN 10:
0099565692
ISBN 13:
9780099565697
文件:
EPUB, 1.27 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2011