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When sensible, sophisticated Flora Poste is orphaned at nineteen, she decides her only choice is to descend upon relatives in deepest Sussex.
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Comic, ironic, cool and resolved.
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- earnestironic
- cooloverwhelming
- resolvedopen-ended
- classical in formformally daring
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About the book
- Author
- Stella Gibbons
- First published
- August 7, 2000
- Pages
- 240
- Publisher
- Penguin Books, Limited, Penguin Books Ltd., BBC Books
- Editions
- 58
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780241963081
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“THE education bestowed on Flora Poste by her parents had been expensive, athletic and prolonged; and when they died within a few weeks of one another during the annual epidemic of the influenza or Spanish Plague which occurred in her twentieth year, she was discovered to possess every art and grace save that of earning her own living.”
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.
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