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Nov 29, 2011 | ISBN 9780143120117 Buy
Nov 29, 2011 | ISBN 9781101565575 Buy
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Nov 29, 2011 | ISBN 9780143120117
Nov 29, 2011 | ISBN 9781101565575
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. With Adam playing Santa while draped in Mrs. Starkadders’s shawls, the family shares their traditional "Christmas pudding"-a mélange containing random objects of doom foretelling the coming year: a coffin nail for death, a bad sixpence for financial ruin, and a menthol cone to indicate that the lucky recipient will go "blind wi’ headache." These lively tales will delight anyone who loves Stella Gibbons and her signature wit.
Stella Dorothea Gibbons, novelist, poet and short-story writer, was born in London in 1902. She went to the North London Collegiate School and studied journalism at University College, London. She then worked for ten years on various papers, including the… More about Stella Gibbons
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