Swiss summer, Gibbons, Stella

Автор: Gibbons, Stella
Название: Cold Comfort Farm
ISBN: 0241418895 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780241418895
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World''Brilliant ... very probably the funniest book ever written' Sunday TimesWhen 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 organise other people. Armed with common sense and a strong will, she resolves to take each of the family in hand. A hilarious and ruthless parody of rural melodramas and purple prose, Cold Comfort Farm is one of the best-loved comic novels of all time.

'Screamingly funny and wildly subversive' Marian Keyes, GuardianThe Penguin Classics edition of Stella Gibbons's Cold Comfort Farm is introduced by Lynne Truss, author of Eats, Shoots and Leaves. If you enjoyed Cold Comfort Farm you might like George and Weedon Grossmith's Diary of a Nobody, also available in Penguin Classics.

Автор: Gibbons, Stella
Название: Oxford Bookworms Library: Stage 6: Cold Comfort Farm
ISBN: 0194792552 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780194792554
Издательство: Oxford University Press
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Описание: The farm lies in the shadow of a hill, and the farmyard rarely sees the sun, even in summer, when the sukebind hangs heavy in the branches. Here live the Starkadders - Aunt Ada Doom, Judith, Amos, Seth, Reuben, Elfine... They lead messy, untidy lives, full of dark thoughts, moody silences, and sudden noisy quarrels. That is, until their attractive young cousin arrives from London. Neat, sensible, efficient, Flora Poste cannot bear messes (they are so uncivilized). She begins to tidy up the Starkadders' lives at once . . .

Автор: Stella Gibbons
Название: Cold Comfort Farm
ISBN: 0241951518 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780241951514
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: Sensible, sophisticated Flora Poste has been expensively educated to do everything but earn a living. When she is orphaned at twenty, she decides her only option is to descend on relatives - the doomed Starkadders at the aptly named Cold Comfort Farm.

Автор: Gibbons,Stella
Название: Nightingale wood
ISBN: 1844085724 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781844085729
Издательство: Little Brown
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Описание: A modern, satirical fairytale that has been unavailable for decades, by the author of COLD COMFORD FARM

Автор: Gibbons, Stella
Название: Weather at tregulla
ISBN: 1913527778 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781913527778
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Описание:

Terence danced, alas, only fairly well. She tried to hide the fact from herself.

Una Broadbent, nineteen years old and desperate to leave the small Cornish town of Tregulla to try her luck on the London stage, finds her hopes dashed by her mother's sudden death and its financial implications. She broods about, working with her father on their small flower farm, but her boredom melts with the arrival of a womanizing artist, Terrence Willows, and his charming sister Emmeline (who spends her time 'footling about'). On hand to witness the resulting sparks are Una's childhood friend Barnabas, his brother Hugo, recovering from a car crash, their military father, who loathes tourists, and an array of other colourful locals. Soon, Terrence's dancing ability is the least of the facts Una is hiding from herself...

First published in 1962 and out of print for decades, The Weather at Tregulla is a funny, touching tale of ill-advised young love against the glorious backdrop of the Cornish coast. This new edition features an introduction by twentieth-century women's historian Elizabeth Crawford.

'The characters are wonderfully well drawn, with a clear-eyed unsentimental sympathy of which Miss Gibbons has the secret' Sphere

Автор: Gibbons, Stella
Название: Westwood
ISBN: 009952872X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099528722
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY LYNNE TRUSS`Stella Gibbons is the Jane Austen of the twentieth century` The TimesSet in wartime London, Westwood tells the story of Margaret Steggles, a plain bookish girl whose mother has told her that she is not the type that attracts men.

Автор: Gibbons, Stella
Название: Enbury Heath
ISBN: 1784877190 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781784877194
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Описание: 'Don't show proper feelin', does it, not turnin' up for 'is dad's funeral?'Siblings Sophia, Harry and Francis have lost both their parents in the last six months. Attending the funeral for their estranged father, they wonder what will become of them now that the last connection to their difficult childhood has been severed. What have they inherited - financially and emotionally - to guide them to adulthood, and build a new home together? Enbury Heath is a semi-autobiographical account of the years which Gibbons and her brothers spent living in a cottage in Hampstead Heath: a wonderfully astute, bittersweet novel about family, grief, money, and the pleasures of London.

Автор: Gibbons, Stella
Название: Matchmaker
ISBN: 0099529335 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099529330
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Описание: Uprooted from war-torn London, Alda Lucie-Brown and her three daughters start a new life at Pine Cottage in rural Sussex. Unsuited to a quiet life, Alda attempts to orchestrate - with varying degrees of success - the love affairs of her neighbours.

Автор: Gibbons, Stella
Название: My American
ISBN: 0099529343 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099529347
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Описание: ** AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4 BOOK AT BEDTIME **`Stella Gibbons`s gift is very special` Daily ExpressAmy, a neglected motherless child in 1920s London meets Robert, a wealthy American boy.

Автор: Gibbons, Stella
Название: The Rich House
ISBN: 0099560526 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099560524
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Описание: Set on the eve of World War II in a resort on the east coast of England, The Rich House follows the love affairs of six young people and their intertwined adorations. These three tip the balance, and relationships shift, but even war cannot halt the passions of the young.

Автор: Gibbons, Stella
Название: Ticky
ISBN: 0099529351 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099529354
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Описание: The Club in central London holds the quarters of Queen Victoria`s finest regiment: the First Bloods. Inside the mighty building, with its two exquisite glass towers, the First Bloods and their regimental servants tussle over a portion of recreational ground.

Автор: Gibbons, Stella
Название: White Sand and Grey Sand
ISBN: 0099529386 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099529385
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Описание: On the dunes west of Bruges, two-year-old Ydette is found wrapped in a blanket and taken back to live in a small grocer`s shop. Opposite the shop live the wealthy van Roeslaere family and their son, Adriaan, a spoilt boy, plagued by ugliness.