The Rich House, 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
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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: Woods in winter
ISBN: 1913527816 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781913527815
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Описание:

...for the first time in her life, she was living as she had always unknowingly wanted to live: in freedom and solitude, with an animal for close companion. Her new life had acted upon her like a strong and delicious drug.

Ivy Gower, a curmudgeonly middle-aged charwoman with some slightly witchy talents, inherits a rural cottage in Buckinghamshire and takes up residence near the tiny village of Little Warby. Having settled in with a rescued dog and a pet pigeon, she manages, despite her anti-social instincts, to have surprising effects on her new neighbours, including Angela Mordaunt, a spinster still mourning her dead beau, Coral and Pearl Cartaret, ditzy sisters who have just opened a tea shop, the local vicar, and wealthy Lord Gowerville, whose devotion she earns by healing his beloved dog. But her biggest challenge will likely be the 12-year-old runaway who shows up at her door...

Blending vivid characters and a deep knowledge of human nature, this is also a funny and poignant tale of the challenges and freedoms of old age and solitude. The Woods in Winter was first published in 1970 and was the last novel Stella Gibbons wrote for publication. This new edition features an introduction by twentieth-century women's historian Elizabeth Crawford.

'Stella Gibbons sees people as they really are but she observes them so lovingly as well as acutely that one loves them too' Elizabeth Goudge

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: Conference at cold comfort farm
ISBN: 0099528681 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099528685
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Описание: Robert Poste`s child is back at Cold Comfort Farm. Flora finds the farm transformed into a twee haven filled with Toby jugs and peasant pottery, and rooms labelled `Quiete Retreate` and `Greate laundrie`.

Автор: Gibbons, Stella
Название: Here be dragons
ISBN: 009952936X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099529361
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Описание: When Nell Sely moves from sleepy Dorset to Hampstead she leaves behind a childhood of dull teas and oppressive rules for the freedom of the big city. In this city of seductive, shifting morals, smoke-filled jazz-clubs and glamorous espresso bars, Nell must master her new found independence and learn to strike her own course.

Автор: Gibbons, Stella
Название: Pink front door
ISBN: 1913527751 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781913527754
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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: Westwood
ISBN: 009952872X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099528722
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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: 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.