Jan 10, 2017Janice21383 rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
A comedy classic that makes one feel good to be alive -- within reason, as Miss Gibbons's heroine might say. Cold Comfort Farm is also a critique of popular literature, which in her day was the "loam and lovechild" books of Mary Webb, H.E. Bates -- and Thomas Hardy and D.H. Lawrence in their humourless moments. The style and spirit is similar to a Jazz Age Jane Austen, but unlike most of Austen, individual sentences are almost uniformly memorable. You may find yourself memorizing long passages -- about woodsheds, say, or cows, butter in hell, or women "fussin' over their fal-lals and bedazin' a man's eyes" -- without conscious effort.
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Cold Comfort Farm