Cold Comfort Farm (Literature) - TV Tropes Cold Comfort Farm You need to login to do this. Get Known if you don't have an account Share "There'll be no butter in hell!" "We are not like other folk, maybe, but there have always been Starkadders at Cold Comfort..." A comic novel by Stella Gibbons, first published in 1932, which parodies the doom-laden rural novels of the time. The immediate inspiration for, and targets of, Gibbons's satire were the novels of Mary Webb and Sheila Kaye-Smith (which deserve it... try one), but she also pokes fun at more redoubtable figures such as D.H. Lawrence, Thomas Hardy and the Brontës. At the same time she has a good laugh at Vogue-reading London socialites, while mocking the genre in which a young orphan girl brings joy and happiness to the lives of all around her.

Jane Austen is the novel's presiding spirit, and Mansfield Park provides the epigraph: 'Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.' The plot is simple: Orphaned at 19, Flora Poste decides to go and live with her relatives and improve their lives rather than find a job. She settles on the Starkadders at Cold Comfort Farm, since, according to the novels of rural life she has read, their lives will certainly need tidying up. Arriving at the farm she finds it even more chaotic than she had feared, and the inhabitants more uncouth than she could have imagined. They include: The ancient hired man Adam Lambsbreath and his four cows: Aimless, Feckless, Graceless and Pointless, who are continually losing horns, hooves and even legs. Amos who runs the farm: a fire-and-brimstone preacher at the local chapel. Judith, his wife, who has a sexual fixation on her son .... ... Seth, the smouldering bad boy, who spends his nights 'mollocking' with the village girls but would rather be at the cinema. Elfine, the free spirit who spends her days wandering around in the hills and fields.

Reuben, whose only passion is the farm itself. The furtive Urk, who wants Elfine for himself. And presiding over the lot, the matriarch Aunt Doom, who never leaves her bedroom, who threatens to go mad if any of her family should leave the farm, and who once 'saw something nasty in the woodshed.' Needless to say, Flora rolls up her sleeves and gets to work, finding each of the main characters a more suitable outlet for their energies and obsessions, while fending off the libidinous Hampstead intellectual Mybug (quite possibly modelled on DH Lawrence) who has designs upon her virtue. A film adaptation was released in 1995, directed by John Schlesinger, with a script by Sir Malcolm Bradbury, and starring Kate Beckinsale as Flora, with Joanna Lumley , Eileen Atkins, Rufus Sewell, and Ian McKellen also heading the cast. Being a parody, Cold Comfort Farm is naturally rich in tropes. They include: Abhorrent Admirer : Mr. Mybug to Flora. She is not taken with his opinions on sexuality or attempts to "prove" that the Brontes' novels were written by their brother.

Urk to Elfine: "My little water-vole! My little water-vole!" All Psychology Is Freudian : The Austrian doctor who Flora calls in to take Judith as a patient. Justified, given the time period. A Don’s Life: Is Cold Comfort Farm a 'good read' October 13, 2011 Is Cold Comfort Farm a 'good read' Sometimes it is a bad idea to go back to books you thought you once enjoyed; but on this occasion I didnt have much choice. I hadn't picked up Stella Gibbons's Cold Comfort Farm for decades, but had vaguely fond memories on "something nasty in the woodshed" (a phrase she coined, as a mysterious episode in the past history of Aunt Ada Doom). But one of my gigs at the Cheltenham Literature Festival on Sunday was to record an episode of Radio 4's A Good Read . If you have never listened to this programme, the idea is simple: two guests plus the presenter each choose a favourite book, and then discuss each one together.

I was on with the excellent Bidisha , who had opted for The Handmaid's Tale (this was good for me, as I long felt guilty for not having read it, and here was the perfect excuse). I myself chose The Odyssey (which really is a good read, in a way The Iliad isn't). The presenter, Harriet Gilbert , had chosen Cold Comfort Farm ("'Very probably the funniest book ever written' Sunday Times" -- as was blazoned, promisingly, on the front cover). Well, it didn't do it for me. The story is a simple one. Flora Poste, left orphaned, goes to lodge with her relatives at a Sussex farm (Cold Comfort) -- who appear to live in a wild version of the British Rural Novel, a mixture of Thomas Hardy, Emily Bronte and Mary Webb; it's full of filth, unprotected sex and parodically rural names (Seth and Reuben etc, as well as old Aunt Ada). Flora sets herself to cleaning this place up, marrying the residents off suitably, getting the truly mad into Nursing homes, before finally getting married herself (not to a resident of Cold Comfort, needless to say). Sure, there are some funny bits.

Gibbons has some great literary parodies, some wonderfully invented rural language (you dont wash the dishes here, you 'cletter' them with a bunch of twigs), and an array of marvellous names. The farm's cows are delightfully graced with the names 'Feckless', 'Graceless', 'Aimless' and 'Pointless' (rather like a squadron of aircraft carriers called "Wimpish', "Feeble' and 'Lily-livered'). But as I read on, I felt that more and more of it was 'pointlessly' puzzling, and actually not entirely nice. For a start I couldn't work out why the book was set in the future. It was written in the early 1930s, but these people talk to each other on video phones, and whizz off to Paris on airplanes that land just near the farm. What on earth did Gibbons mean by that (Bidisha thought it was another delightful aspect of the whimsy . . . )?

But, by the end of the book, when the farmers had been well and truly cleaned up, and Flora had gone off to a triumphant (Jane Austen style) marriage, I thought we had been reading a rather controlling victory of modern order, cleanliness, contraception and medicine -- over these messy, different, rural types. Harriet and Bidisha argued that the joke of the book was really on everyone, Flora included. But so far as I could see, Flora got her way on everything -- at which we, the readers, were meant to be delighted, and applaud her future nuptials. I found myself screaming for the rights of these poor country folk NOT to fall into the hands of people like Flora, to continue with their stupid cows, their indiscriminate sexual activities, and their mad aunties in the attic. Give me back my Mary Webb , I found myself shouting. (You can listen here for a few days.) I certainly didn't please everyone! There were a couple of good humoured, objecting tweets, and just after the programme was first broadcast, I got a very cross email from a lady in Oxford.

It was headed "You" in the subject line (always ominous), and read: "I find your puplic <sic> persona and general 'jolly' approach irrritating. I now avoid your programmes." I wrote back to her to ask her to fill me in a bit (I mean I find quite a lot of people on the radio irritating... but I dont email them to tell them). But I got no reply. Rather self-protectingly, I guess, and with no other evidence to go on, I have decided that she must be a real Cold Comfort Farm fan -- or else someone who really hates The Odyssey (not just me!). Ordinary Reader: "Cold Comfort Farm" "Cold Comfort Farm" Monday, July 26, 2010 - by: Ordinary Reader "Cold Comfort Farm" by Stella Gibbons This is a very funny book....once you know it's meant to be satirical. Otherwise one would think Ms. Gibbons is not quite grasping reality. Fortunately I had read a few reviews so I knew what to expect and I thoroughly enjoyed it. It is the story of a young woman of manners, but no money, who needs a place to live when her parents die.

She has no marketable skills and is rather disinclined to earn her own living anyway. She writes to several relatives to ask if they would be willing to give her a home and she ends up at Cold Comfort Farm with her aunt Ada Doom, who is the head of the family and only comes out of her room once or twice a year, and her cousin, Judith, who lives always deep in the depths of despair, has 200 pictures of her favorite son in her bedroom and believes there is no hope for any of her family, the Starkadders. Aunt Ada Doom keeps her large family from leaving the farm by exercising her considerable gift for manipulation. Judith's husband, Amos, is a tormented preacher of the fire and brimstone variety, who feels called to show people their sinful ways but also assures them there is no nope for them because they will never be forgiven. The other inhabitants of the farm are all extreme in their own peculiar way, resulting in more of an asylum atmosphere than a home. That may not sound like a funny book but really, it is. The names given to both people and animals are wonderfully ridiculous. The dairy cows are Pointless, Aimless, Feckless, Graceless and Fury.

People's names include Mr. Mybug, Rev. Elderberry Shiftglass, Agony Beetle and Mrs. Hawk-Monitor. Names are such powerful things and in this book they create a sense of the ludicrous that makes the whole thing highly entertaining. Flora, the young woman who goes to live on the farm, feels it is her duty to make all the others as normal as possible. Not that she has a great grasp on normalcy herself, but confidence and determination can overcome a multitude of deficiencies. And so she goes to work on them one at a time, with her endeavors in that direction making up the rest of the story. Usually I have to be able to relate to at least one of the characters in a book to really get into it. In this book they are all seriously unique individuals and though I didn't find anyone I could connect with on an emotional level, it doesn't matter. It's all just so ridiculous you can't help but laugh. I think this would be a fun novel to study because there are so many characters and situations to analyze. It would be interesting to pull it apart and see what is under the surface.

Alas I probably will never do that because I have a gazillion other books I want to read in this lifetime, but I might reread it and may even recommend it to my book club. That would make for some stimulating conversation and give me a chance to get a little deeper into it. Some lines that made me laugh: 1. "He was enmeshed in his grief. He did not notice that Graceless's leg had come off and that she was managing as best she could with three." Seriously, how all-consuming would his grief have to be to not notice the cow's leg was missing? And how does a cow's leg just fall off anyway? 2. When Flora asks if she can go to town with Amos to hear him preach: "Aye...ye can come...ye poor miserable creepin' sinner". Serious lack of people skills there. 3. "'I thought poetry was enough', said Elphine, wistfully. 'I mean, I thought poetry was so beautiful that if you met someone you loved and you told them you wrote poetry, that would be enough to make them love you, too.'" Uh huh.

A curious passage occurs when Flora calls her friend Claude from a public telephone: "Claud twisted the television dial and amused himself by studying Flora's fair, pensive face......She could not look at him, because public telephones were not fitted with television dials. Television dial? On a telephone? And he could see her while she was talking on a phone with no television installed on it? The book was first published in 1932 and the setting is declared to "take place in the near future". Hmmm. If I'm missing something here somebody please enlighten me 'cause that's just weird. This is a book definitely worth reading. I see there are two more called "Conference At Cold Comfort Farm" and "Christmas At Cold Comfort Farm". They've been added to my tbr list, so hopefully I'll be able to find them. All those crazy people sort of feel like family. Again, hmmm.

- Cold Comfort Farm: Stella Gibbons: 9781617201653: Literature: Amazon Canada By lawyeraau TOP 500 REVIEWER on July 18 2006 Format: Paperback First published in 1932, this novel is a hysterically funny, tongue in cheek parody of the heavy handed, gloomy novels of some early twentieth century English writers who had previously been so popular. Tremendously successful when first published, "Cold Comfort Farm" caused quite a stir in its time. The novel starts out innocuously enough, when well-educated Flora Poste finds herself orphaned at the age of twenty. Discovering that her father was not the wealthy man she believed him to be, she is resigned to the fate of having to live on a hundred pounds a year. Opting to live with relatives, rather than earn her bread, she seeks out a most unlikely set of relations, the odd Starkadder family who live in Howling, Sussex. Therein begins what is certainly one of the funniest novels ever written.

When Flora arrives in Howling, she meets her odd relatives, who live in neglected, ramshackle "Cold Comfort Farm", where they still wash the dishes with twigs, and have cows named Graceless, Pointless, Feckless, and Aimless. Headed by a seventy-nine year old matriarch, Flora's aunt, Ada Doom Starkadder, who has not been right in the head since she "saw something nasty happen in the woodshed" nearly seventy years ago, they are a motley and strange crew indeed. Confronted with their dismal and gloomy existence, Flora sets about trying to put things to right. Peppered with eccentric, memorable characters, this book will take the reader on a journey not easily forgotten. It is one that is sure to make the reader revisit this novel yet again, like an old friend who is missed too soon. 5 people found this helpful. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Sending feedback... Thank you for your feedback. Sorry, we failed to record your vote. Please try again. By lawyeraau TOP 500 REVIEWER on Nov.

26 2007 Format: Paperback Published in 1932, this novel is a hysterically funny, tongue in cheek parody of the heavy handed, gloomy novels of some early twentieth century English writers who had previously been so popular. Tremendously successful when first published, "Cold Comfort Farm" caused quite a stir in its time. The novel starts out innocuosly enough, when well educated Flora Poste finds herself orphaned at the age of twenty. Discovering that her father was not the wealthy man she believed him to be, she is resigned to the fate of having to live on a hundred pounds a year. Opting to live with relatives, rather than earn her bread, she seeks out a most unlikely set of relations, the odd Starkadder family who live in Howling, Sussex. Therein begins what is certainly one of the funniest novels ever written. When Flora arrives in Howling, she meets her odd relatives, who live in neglected, ramshackle "Cold Comfort Farm", where they still wash the dishes with twigs, and have cows named Graceless, Pointless, Feckless, and Aimless.

Headed by a seventy nine year old matriarch, Flora's aunt, Ada Doom Starkadder, who has not been right in the head since she "saw something nasty happen in the woodshed" nearly seventy years ago, they are a motley and strange crew indeed. Confronted with their dismal and gloomy existence, Flora sets about trying to put things to right. Peppered with eccentric, memorable characters, this book will take the reader on a journey not easily forgotten. It is one that is sure to make the reader revisit this novel yet again, like an old friend who is missed too soon. 2 people found this helpful. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Sending feedback... Thank you for your feedback. Sorry, we failed to record your vote. Please try again. By lawyeraau TOP 500 REVIEWER on Jan. 17 2004 Format: Paperback First published in 1932, this novel is a hysterically funny, tongue-in-cheek parody of the heavy handed, gloomy novels of some early twentieth century English writers who had previously been so popular. Tremendously successful when first published, "Cold Comfort Farm" caused quite a stir in its time.

The novel starts out innocuously enough, when well-educated Flora Poste finds herself orphaned at the age of twenty. Discovering that her father was not the wealthy man she believed him to be, she is resigned to the fate of having to live on a hundred pounds a year. Opting to live with relatives, rather than earn her bread, she seeks out a most unlikely set of relations, the odd Starkadder family who live in Howling, Sussex. Therein begins what is certainly one of the funniest novels ever written. When Flora arrives in Howling, she meets her odd relatives, who live in neglected, ramshackle "Cold Comfort Farm", where they still wash the dishes with twigs, and have cows named Graceless, Pointless, Feckless, and Aimless. Headed by a seventy-nine year old matriarch, Flora's aunt, Ada Doom Starkadder, who has not been right in the head since she "saw something nasty happen in the woodshed" nearly seventy years ago, they are a motley and strange crew indeed. Confronted with their dismal and gloomy existence, Flora sets about trying to put things to right.

Peppered with eccentric, memorable characters, this book will take the reader on a journey not easily forgotten. It is one that is sure to make the reader revisit this novel yet again, like an old friend who is missed too soon. One person found this helpful. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Sending feedback... Thank you for your feedback. Sorry, we failed to record your vote. Please try again. By Bruce F. Webster on April 19 2004 Format: Paperback Parody is easy to do but hard to sustain or do well, and almost always done as an end it itself--the author saying, "See how wicked and clever I am, and how silly the thing I'm mocking is!" Gibbons' genius is that she while she pokes fun at specific genres and authors (including herself), she actually writes a complete (and well-done) novel, and she treats the characters with affection and a certain dignity. The result is a book that's not only clever, funny, and well-written, but that is also unexpectedly, in the end, sweet and romantic.

For those wondering, the 1995 film adaptation (available on DVD right here on Amazon) is remarkably faithful (with understandable trimming, folding and tucking), and likewise hilarious without ever being mean spirited. Both have my highest recommendation. ..bruce.. One person found this helpful. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Sending feedback... Thank you for your feedback. Sorry, we failed to record your vote. Please try again. Cold Comfort Farm (Dramatised) Radio/TV Program | Stella Gibbons | Audible.com ""There is NO BUTTER in Hell......."" ....thunders Amos Starkadder, hell fire preacher at the Church of the Quivering Brethren. He has been describing the terrors of the afterlife and underlining the fact that there will be no butter to soothe the burns of the damned. This is just one of so many throw away lines that keep bringing back a smile. Long ago as a teenager I devoured and enjoyed the emotion charged and dire tragedies of writers like Mary Webb, Thomas Hardy and George Eliot.

Whilst not wishing to detract from great classic literature, they did tend to paint rural life of those times as full of doom, gloom, and poverty and peopled by sad.slightly deranged and pathetic characters down trodden by domineering, manipulative elders. This glorious light hearted spoof on so many of those Victorian plot lines had me in stitches and I loved every moment. I usually steer clear of dramatisations, as for me the background sounds etc can be distracting. This one was clear as a bell and the narrators a delight. If you listen to the sound sample above make sure you hear it all through as the start is NOT how the recording really sounds - just another teaser. Sit back and enjoy - this is fun. ""Leave me alone to my loneliness"" What made the experience of listening to Cold Comfort Farm (Dramatised) the most enjoyable? Even though abridged, it was true to the book and every character had a marvelous reader. It was like listening to an extraordinary radio performance that my grandparents enjoyed back in the 30's, only much more elaborate with sound effects and crystal clear sound.

I wish I had this to share with my grandmother during the last ten years of her life when she lost most of her sight due to glaucoma. What did you like best about this story? I was tickled with the names of everything from last names, towns, pub and Adam's cows. That Flora didn't flee after her first night after meeting her scary cousin Judith and seeing decades of filth and neglect. Also, her snobbery faded quickly after the first day and she became a likeable character that dealt well with each of these wonderful, complex characters. I also loved the full cast, the farm noise background and sound effects. The rude barkeep "here's your spoon," and you here a spoon hitting a table. Rueben slurping his first proper cup of tea. When Flora lets the bull out...oh, everyone is shouting in the background about the bull.They spared nothing and gave everything. It's wonderful. Which scene was your favorite? The hullabulu when Flora, Elfine and Seth came back from Dick Hawke-Monitor's party, where he proposed to Elfine. Amos announces he is hitting the road in a Ford to spread his special brand of preaching to save the Godless sinners.

Elfine announces she is engaged and that sends Urk into a fit because she was promised his when she was an infant. Adam goes into a fit because his daughter Elfine is engaged. Urk decides he'll take another cousin there for a bride (a dirt crusted one to match his dirt crusted self) and suggests they both go outside and "sink into the mud together." Aunt Ada Doom goes into a granddaddy fit about "there's always been Starkadders at Cold Comfort." And "your leaving me to die alone in the nasty woodshed!" Dishes are clattering and hitting the floor, feet stomping and shuffling the floor. I think some chairs topple over. It's noisy and fun, and hilarious. I also like the scene when the film producer Mr.Neck comes over and he offers to make Seth a "film star." Cousin Judith has a over the top fit that even impresses Mr.Neck. Aunt Ada is shouting out of her window, repeating "I saw something nasty in the woodshed". Mr.Neck replies, "did it see you?" "Mybug" telling Flora about his theory behind the Bronte Sisters being secret drunks and not the authors of their books.

Especially funny about "Mybug's" theory how Wuthering Heights was written. It's hard to pick one specific favorite scene. They are all terrific. Any additional comments? Under Milk Wood (Dramatised) Dylan Thomas with Richard Burton has a full cast and has excellent sound quality. I highly recommend it. "Like Dorothy Parker in Tennessee" "Cold Comfort Farm" is very dated and very British. It's a send-up of a kind of rural novel popular at the turn of the 20th Century -- dour, secretive characters living foreboding lives on isolated, atmospheric farms on the fens or the moors of England. Aunt Ada Doom and the Starkadders trudge through existence on Cold Comfort Farm ("There have always been Starkadders at Cold Comfort!") There are also the brooding, sex-starved sons Seth and Rueben, the grumbling, illiterate servants, and the cows (Aimless, Feckless, Graceless and Pointless). Into this seething mass of eccentricity drops Miss Flora Poste, a bright young thing from London whose parents have just died, leaving her with little money and the need to seek out a place to live among relatives.

The Starkadders are it, and Flora is determined to set their lives straight in short order! It's giggle-and-laugh out loud funny! As though, in America, Dorothy Parker suddenly found herself in the wilds of Appalachia. Stella Gibbons wrote the book in 1932, and this is a radio dramatization. The actors are wonderful, but beware some of the country accents (intentionally nearly incomprehensible at times). In the background, you can hear the lowing and cackling of the beasts, the ever-present thunder storms, and the sucking of the mud in the pasture. This is 3 1/2 hours of great fun! Not for everyone, but lovers of all things British, Masterpiece Theater, and something really different are in for a treat. "One of my all time favorites" Would you consider the audio edition of Cold Comfort Farm (Dramatised) to be better than the print version? This is a great book for performing and having it dramatised was just delicious. My only complaint is that the audio is mastered in a way that some bits are very hard to hear. The fluctuating audio had me adjusting the volume frequently.

What was one of the most memorable moments of Cold Comfort Farm (Dramatised)? Mr. Mybug's speeches are astonishing. The Quivering Brethren scene is absolutely classic. What does uncredited bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book? The BBC full cast allowed everyone to really embrace their roles. Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting? It would have been without the audio issues. Any additional comments? "Like a BEAST about to guffaw..." This production does full justice to the novel. If you're familiar with Cold Comfort Farm already, that's probably all the information you need. If you aren't, you're in for a treat. Tip: don't listen to this dramatization in public places. I don't care how ironclad your control of your facial expression is-- you'll laugh, repeatedly, and everyone will give you odd looks. Other unintended effects of this sublime work of pastoral satire include the utter ruination of any beast-based figurative language; absentminded pondering of the condiments available in hell; and worrying that cows may disintegrate when you aren't looking.

Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons ~ things mean a lot Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons The farmhouse was a long, low building, two-storied in parts. Other parts of it were three-storied. Edward the Sixth had originally owned it in the form of a shed in which he housed his swineherds, but he had grown tired of it, and had had it rebuilt in Sussex clay. Then he pulled it down. Elizabeth had rebuilt it, with a good many chimneys in one way or another. The Charleses had let it alone; but William and Mary had pulled it down again, and George the first had rebuilt it. George the second, however, burned it down. George the third added another wing. George the fourth pulled it down again. (…) It was known locally as ‘The King’s Whim’. When Flora Poste becomes an orphan, she decides to write to all her remaining relatives asking who will take her in. The most appealing response comes from Cousin Judith in Essex, whose family lives at Cold Comfort Farm—a place complete with cows by the names of Feckless, Graceless, Aimless and Pointless.

From the moment when she hears from cousin Judith, Flora expects to find oversexed young men by the names of Seth and Rueben at the farm, and a Seth and a Rueben she finds—along with reclusive Aunt Ada Doom, who ‘saw something nasty in the woodshed’ as a child and hasn’t been the same ever since. But that’s just one of the many problems that Flora, armed with a book called The High Common Sense, decides to sort out. Those of you who warned me some time ago that it was a bit odd to compare Cold Comfort Farm to I Capture the Castle were right—the only connection, other than that they are both well-beloved classics, is perhaps that Flora would have a thing or two to say to Cassandra’s family, especially her father. And well, I can maybe think of a third connection, which is the fact that, even if in completely different ways, they are both awesome. I knew Cold Comfort Farm was funny, but I didn’t really know why. In fact, I didn’t know much about the book at all.

It turns out that the reason why it’s so funny is because it parodies dramatic, romanticized novels about English rural life along the lines of Thomas Hardy or Wuthering Heights. And it’s funny even if you like the originals—sort of like The Colour of Magic, which is mostly appreciated by fantasy fans. Cold Comfort Farm is my favourite kind of parody: it’s incisive, but it never really belittles its target. And like the best parodies, it’s true. More than about dramatic literature, it’s about life. It touches on something I often think about (because believe me, I actually know people like this): The idea that Suffering Is Heroic; that negative emotions are somehow more real and superior to positive ones; that happiness and comfort are frivolous or silly, and only appropriate for people who aren’t all that bright. I don’t want to sound dismissive or unsympathetic towards people who are unhappy for whatever reason. And trust me, I know that there’s plenty in the world to be unhappy about. But no, you don’t have to be shallow to be happy, and no, it’s not silly to do the best you can with what you’ve got.

This puts me in mind of an embarrassing conversation I had with my literature teacher in highschool (in my defence, I was seventeen). I told her I didn’t think intelligent people could ever truly be happy because they were “too aware”. She laughed, not unkindly, and told me that another thing about intelligent people is that they adapt. Sadly, I’ve known people who have remained seventeen forever. But hooray for Flora, who is all about adapting, finding solutions, turning things around, and pointing out to people that really, isn't having a good time so much nicer than wallowing in misery and self-pity? One last thing: it’s a bit subtle, and it might be possible to miss it altogether if you’re not paying attention, but Cold Comfort Farm is actually set in a futuristic alternate-history kind of world, which means there are little touches and little references here and there that make you stop and go, “wait a minute…” And this, of course, warmed my speculative-fiction loving heart. Memorable bits: If she intended to tidy up life at Cold Comfort Farm, she would find herself opposed at every turn by the influence of Aunt Ada. Flora was sure this would be so.

Persons of Aunt Ada’s temperament were not fond of a tidy life. Storms were what they liked; plenty of rows, doors being slammed, and jaws sticking out, and faces white with fury, and faces brooding in corners, and faces making unnecessary fuss at breakfast, and plenty of opportunities for gorgeous emotional wallowings, and partings forever, and misunderstandings, and interferings, and spyings, and, above all, managing and intriguing. Oh, they did enjoy themselves! They were the sort that went trampling over your stamp collection, or whatever it was, and then spent the rest of their lives atoning for it. But you would rather have had your stamp collection. For it is a peculiarity of persons who lead rich emotional lives, and who (as the saying is) live intensely and with a wild poetry, that they read all kinds of meanings into comparatively simple actions, especially the actions of other people, who do not live intensely and with a wild poetry. Thus you may find them weeping passionately on their bed, and be told that you—you alone—are the cause of it because you said that awful thing to them at lunch.

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Kudos also for Joanna Lumley in her strong supporting role as Flora's London sophisticate of a mentor (the widow Mary Smiling), and especially for Ian McKellen's virtuoso performance, who virtually burns down the barn with his charismatic preacher-cum farm manager character, Amos Starkadder. Lots of fun. Highly recommended.. 2 de 2 personas piensan que la opiniÃ³n es Ãºtil 5.0 de un mÃ¡ximo de 5 estrellas I Saw Something Nasty in the Woodshed 13 de febrero de 2014 Por J.Taylor - Publicado en Amazon.com Compra verificada Miss Post has lost her parents. Now she must find refuge. Her London relatives have turned her down, but a rich field of eccentric relations in Great Britain's provinces could be just the opportunity this budding writer needs. After several abysmal possibilities present themselves, she receives a letter from the Starkadder family of Cold Comfort Farm.

The cast of Eileen Atkins, Ian McKellan, Stephen Fry, Kate Beckinsale and Shiela Burrel as Aunt Ada Doom "who saw something nasty in the woodshed" and is determined to make her family pay for what she saw, make this a funny tale of eighteenth century backwardness put right by the spirit of 1920's self actualization, as the plucky Flora Post guides the members of Cold Comfort farm toward the lives they were put on earth to lead. This is one to buy for your library of all time favorite films. 2 de 2 personas piensan que la opiniÃ³n es Ãºtil 5.0 de un mÃ¡ximo de 5 estrellas See something nasty in the woodshed 12 de agosto de 2014 Por Jackie Sproat - Publicado en Amazon.com Formato: DVD Compra verificada Saw this movie when HBO first aired it years ago and loved it immediately! I've been searching and searching for a copy of it in the local stores for ages and have never found one. Can't believe that so many people have never heard of this movie! It's absolutely hysterical and fun to watch again and again.

It's got an all-star cast of British favorites that will have you giggling and repeating the family's mantras along with them. Eileen Atkins, Joanna Lumley, Stephen Fry, Ian McKellen, Kate Beckinsale, Rufus Sewell, and Miriam Margolyes -- if you enjoy any of these actors' work, you'll love seeing them together in this movie! 2 de 2 personas piensan que la opiniÃ³n es Ãºtil 5.0 de un mÃ¡ximo de 5 estrellas Wonderful British Comedy - Quirky, Witty, Funny 23 de septiembre de 2011 Por Andrew J. DiLiddo Jr. - Publicado en Amazon.com Formato: DVD Compra verificada " I saw something nasty in the woodshed"....... "There have ALWAYS been Starkadders at Cold Comfort Farm".....these two lines are repeated as a sort of litany throughout the film. Very subtle British comedy. You will quickly realize in the opening seen that you are in for a very quirky brand of comedy as the delicious, lovely Joanna Lumley playing the character, Mary Smiling, piddles over her hobby with her butler.

Her hobby is a collection of lady's corsets, bras, undergarments on partial mannikins. Mary Smiling, her character, of course, is always smiling. The names are very much tongue in cheek as well. "Highly sexed young men living on farms are always named Seth or Ruben"..... [Flora Poste referring to cousins she has not yet met on Cold Comfort Farm.] The film opens with about 50 seconds of black and white footage setting the history of the little girl who saw something nasty in the woodshed. That little girl is now elderly and uses whatever she saw in the woodshed as a lever and club over everyone's lives who lives with her on Cold Comfort Farm. Great Aunt Ada's (who saw something nasty in the woodshed when she was a little girl) worst fear is that her children and grandchildren will leave her alone on the farm. Kate Beckinsale plays the role of Flora Poste, known throughout the film as "Robert Poste's child". Flora is recently orphaned in 1930's London when both her mother and father die at the same time.

No relatives in London care to take her in as the estate only left her 100 pounds per year for her allowance. So, she stays with a friend in London while she writes letters to all of her relatives throughout Great Britain seeking the appropriate fit for the next stage of her life. Flora sorts through the responses from the relatives and chooses to go to Cold Comfort Farm with her cousins, the Starkadders. Fecundity rules as Flora leaves behind the societal refinement she enjoyed in the upper crust in London. Flora has ambitions to be a writer and believes she must experience "real life" (on a farm) in order to write about it. However, she has an ulterior motive. She possesses enough self awareness at a relatively young age to know something about herself. She likes to "tidy things up" that are messy. Thus, the untidy Cold Comfort Farm and the people who inhabit it seem an apropos challenge for her. DO YOU KNOW OR HAVE EXPERIENCE WITH ANY DYSFUNCTIONAL FAMILIES? Then, you will love this film. What I liked about the film is the trans-formative nature of Flora Poste, Beckinsale's character.

Without being too much of a busybody she inserts herself into her unknown relatives' lives on Cold Comfort Farm and literally transforms the farm and all the people on it. It is a sheer joy to watch it unfold. 2 de 2 personas piensan que la opiniÃ³n es Ãºtil Cold Comfort Farm (Penguin Classics) by Stella Gibbons, Lynne Truss (9780141441597) A "slapstick" novel of manners? By Bensmomma on Sep 03, 2003 Could there be such a thing as a "slapstick" novel of manners? This one might qualify, for its humour both witty and broad and its country-house setting. Our highly-educated heroine Flora Poste, intelligent, witty, but fashion-addled, aimless, and seemingly shallow, descends on her rural relatives when her parents die leaving her penniless.

Sharp parodies of rural England, the family includes, among others, an insane matriarch locked in her room, a love-mad and graceless granddaughter, a grandson who plays the same role among the maids that the bull does among the cows, an antique manservant who fails to notice when a cow's leg falls off. In short order Flora contrives to marry off the granddaughter to a local grandee, packs the grandson off to Hollywood, and generally manages things so craftily that everyone not only lives Happily Ever After but also does so with Good Manners and better haircuts. The most winning feature of Gibbon's book (after the fact that it is hysterically funny) is that she skewers not only the conventions of the 1930s upper classes to which Flora belongs, but also the working class denizens of the farm. At first everyone seems faintly ridiculous but over time your affections for ALL these characters grows. By the end you are actually happy to see them all happily settled, and Flora no longer seems like a conniver but a clever and sympathetic heroine-more Elizabeth Bennet than Becky Sharpe. A very neat trick on the part of the author, and one well worth the discovering.

One miniscule note of caution: Gibbons, writing in the 1930s, sets her novel "in the near future," and adds a couple of futuristic features that confuse the casual reader-telephones with televisions in them so you can see the speaker, references to the "Anglo-Nicaraguan War" and the like. You may safely ignore them without diminishing the book. Enjoyable - but not the original text By Amazon Customer on Jan 05, 2009 I read the book as part of a book club. We all found it amusing and entertaining. Be warned - this is not the same text as originally published. I ordered this edition because it would ship sooner than others which appeared higher on the sort list. While the story arc is the same, and the characters as quirky, it became apparent that my version misses a lot of the descriptive prose my friend all read. Skip this edition and get the full deal. Do not buy from BN Publishing By Arthur M. Bullock on Nov 15, 2010 This review applies ONLY to the edition of "Cold Comfort Farm" sold by BN Publishing.

It is an abridged edition - or as one reviewer called it, a "dumbed-down" version. It still retains some entertainment value, but reads more like a novelization for teens of the 1995 Kate Beckinsale move (which I liked very much) than great literature. I couldn't believe this was a book with such a wonderful reputation, and then I realized this wasn't what Stella Gibbons actually wrote. To make matters truly annoying, I had to confirm my suspicions from external sources. There is absolutely no indication in the book itself that it's anything other than the original. I certainly hope to get the real thing some day, and for anyone else I strongly recommend doing that, and not repeating my mistake. A couple other reviewers have made this point before, but I feel it requires additional emphasis. Those reviews are buried among the high praises of people most of whom probably read unabridged editions, not this one. I don't know exactly how this happens, but I've noticed other cases where reviews clearly don't apply to the particular edition described on that page. A brilliant, affectionate book By Bruce F.

Webster on Apr 19, 2004 Parody is easy to do but hard to sustain or do well, and almost always done as an end it itself--the author saying, "See how wicked and clever I am, and how silly the thing I'm mocking is!" Gibbons' genius is that she while she pokes fun at specific genres and authors (including herself), she actually writes a complete (and well-done) novel, and she treats the characters with affection and a certain dignity. The result is a book that's not only clever, funny, and well-written, but that is also unexpectedly, in the end, sweet and romantic. For those wondering, the 1995 film adaptation (available on DVD right here on Amazon) is remarkably faithful (with understandable trimming, folding and tucking), and likewise hilarious without ever being mean spirited. Both have my highest recommendation. ..bruce.. don't buy this edition - its abridged and dumbed-down By Cookie The Kawaii Potato ;3 on Sep 04, 2011 My book club chose this book for this month's read.

I ordered a copy from the library (Penguin Books 1996 edition) as well as this edition (2011 Wilder Publications) for my daughter. By a fluke, when I was starting chapter 13 in the Penquin edition, I picked up the Wilder edition and went to Chapter 13. I was horrified to find the Wilder edition not only cut outs entire passages, but also alters the text: for example, in this description of the dressmaker cutting the cloth for Elphine's dress: Penguin: "Flora sat and watched for an hour while M. Solide worried the satin like a terrier, tore it into breadths, swathed and caped and draped it. She was pleased to see that Elfine..." " Wilder: "Flora watched for an hour while he cut and tore and folded the silk. She was pleased to see that Elfine...". This is sickening. It occurs every where - magnificent passages cut altogether or altered to insipid meaninglessness. It's an insult to the author and the reader, and I couldn't find anything in the book or on Amazon.com to warn you that this is an abridgement.

Don't buy this - get the Penguin edition only. QUIRKY, BRILLIANT, AND HILARIOUS PARODY... By Lawyeraau on Aug 09, 2002 Published in 1932, this novel is a hysterically funny, tongue in cheek parody of the heavy handed, gloomy novels of some early twentieth century English writers who had previously been so popular. Tremendously successful when first published, "Cold Comfort Farm" caused quite a stir in its time. The novel starts out innocuosly enough, when well educated Flora Poste finds herself orphaned at the age of twenty. Discovering that her father was not the wealthy man she believed him to be, she is resigned to the fate of having to live on a hundred pounds a year. Opting to live with relatives, rather than earn her bread, she seeks out a most unlikely set of relations, the odd Starkadder family who live in Howling, Sussex. Therein begins what is certainly one of the funniest novels ever written.

When Flora arrives in Howling, she meets her odd relatives, who live in neglected, ramshackle "Cold Comfort Farm", where they still wash the dishes with twigs, and have cows named Graceless, Pointless, Feckless, and Aimless. Headed by a seventy nine year old matriarch, Flora's aunt, Ada Doom Starkadder, who has not been right in the head since she "saw something nasty happen in the woodshed" nearly seventy years ago, they are a motley and strange crew indeed. Confronted with their dismal and gloomy existence, Flora sets about trying to put things to right. Peppered with eccentric, memorable characters, this book will take the reader on a journey not easily forgotten. It is one that is sure to make the reader revisit this novel yet again, like an old friend who is missed too soon. Not Cold Comfort Farm By Neal Wilkins on Dec 05, 2010 Run away, run away screaming from this version of the book! This is NOT the book Stella Gibbons wrote. I don't know how it's legal to make serious changes to a book and publish it under the original author's name.

The charm and humor of the original is completely lost in this badly re-written version of the book. Rural Gothic By Roger Brunyate on Jan 02, 2007 The humor of this glorious funny book resides mainly in Gibbons' masterly control of prose style; if you have only seen the movie, you know less than half of what the author has to offer. Yes, she creates a wonderful gallery of extraordinary characters, and the story clips along nicely if rather predictably, but it is the author's language that really gets you laughing out loud. Written in 1932, the book is a parody of a certain kind of rural melodrama popular at the time, but of the authors mentioned by the Oxford Companion to English Literature as models only D. H. Lawrence is still read today. But no matter; there are strong echoes of Hardy and the Brontes as well, and anyway the language works just fine on its own.

It ranges from gothic descriptions of a landscape primeval and stark, throbbing with the fecund sap of plant and beast, to gnomic sayings delivered in a rural dialect so thick as to be incomprehensible if one did not realize that half the words in it were probably made up by the author. And, as an added incentive, Gibbons has helpfully marked her most purple passages with two or three stars, "according to the method perfected by the late Herr Baedecker." Flora Poste, twenty, fashionable, well educated, and recently orphaned, decides against working for a living so writes around to various distant relatives asking them to take her in. She decides to go to live with the Starkadders, some distant cousins whose alarming address is Cold Comfort Farm, Howling, Sussex. (This will seem less odd if you know English place-names, and throughout the book Gibbons' choice of names is both almost plausible and brilliantly absurd.) The farm is described in the first of the starred passages, beginning thus: "Dawn crept over the Downs like a sinister white animal, followed by the snarling cries of a wind eating its way between the black boughs of the thorns.

The wind was the furious voice of this sluggish animal light that was baring the dormers and mullions and scullions of Cold Comfort Farm. The farm was crouched on a bleak hill-side, whence its fields, fanged with flints, dropped steeply to the village of Howling a mile away . . . ". The extended family she meets there, all with short biblical names of Old Testament force, is equally dour, and the living conditions are primitive to say the least. The household is presided over by the matriarch, Great Aunt Ada Doom, who "saw something nasty in the woodshed" as a child and has barely emerged from her room since, but terrifies the others into submission for fear of completing her descent into total insanity. But Flora determines to take the farm and the family in hand, beginning with the youngest, the nature spirit Elfine, and working up to the old woman. The manner in which she does so forms the plot of the rest of the book. The gothic style which the author handles so well depends upon the ability to evoke impending doom, and Gibbons virtually redefines the verb "impend." So the first half of the novel at least is superb.

However, as light and warmth are brought into Cold Comfort Farm, the doom begins to dissipate. In nineteenth-century terms, Gibbons' influence changes from Bronte to Austen, whom she can certainly match in witty observation, though at the loss of the gothic elemental power. The plot, too, lacks suspense; everything that Flora undertakes to do works out with few surprises; the main parody element at the end is the neatness with which it all does work out, even including the resolution of Flora's own romantic needs. But in exchange, as others on this site have mentioned, Stella Gibbons achieves a transformation of a different kind: the forbidding cast of caricatures to whom we are first introduced has become a family of real people, whom Flora finds herself caring about quite a lot. And the reader too. Skill of this sort takes Stella Gibbons beyond the ranks of a mere parodist and reveals her as a true novelist. [I actually read the book in the older Penguin edition, which has a fine cover, quite relevant to the period, taken from a painting by Stanley Spencer. But it is rather sloppily printed.

The Penguin de luxe edition (which I have seen but didn't buy) is much better produced, and has the added bonus of a cover by Roz Chast -- a masterly match-up of two funny women working eighty years apart.] A brilliant book By Suzanne Sanderson on Sep 29, 2000 Not long before she died, I wrote to Stella Gibbons to tell her how much I liked her books - all of them. She wrote back that most readers have only read Cold Comfort Farm. "It's rather like having a brilliant eldest child who puts the rest in the shade", she said. Since, with the exception of Cold Comfort Farm, all of her literary offspring are out of print, content yourself with buying the brilliant eldest book. Flora Poste, a true Virgo, descends on the Starkadder clan and creates calm out of chaos. And as with all good fairy tales, even the Starkadders lived as happily-ever-after as anyone with such a lurid emotional life could.

(Note: If you enjoy this book and want to try some of Stella Gibbons' other titles, there are some gems, but they are all quite different in style from Cold Comfort Farm - it is unique.) Satirical, Sardonic look at the English Novel in Cold Comfort Farm By Rebecca Huston on Jul 13, 2006 Every now and then, usually when life gets a bit too stressful, I need a good belly laugh. And if an author can do it in a clever fashion, then all the better. Such was the case with Stella Gibbon's Cold Comfort Farm. Written in 1932, and set in "the near future," it's the story of the Starkadder family and what happens when they have a run in with the determined Flora Poste. Flora is one of those heroines who is decidedly cheerful, and very intent on fixing up other peoples messes and untidiness. Forced with the decision to either throw herself on the mercy of some relations goodwill to take her in, or (horrors!) get a job, Flora writes to the various relations that she has in search of a home after the demise of her parents.

In exchange, Flora will hand over her slight inheritance of a hundred pounds a year. And it seems the only relations who do want her are the Starkadders, off in the downs of Sussex. Flora is imagining a tidy home farm. What she gets is a set of cranky, eccentric if not outright insane, cousins, with the ringleader, Aunt Ada Doom in the middle of it all. There is the son of Ada, Amos Starkadder, who runs the farm, but spends Tuesday nights off preaching fire and brimstone to the Brethren; his wife Judith who worships her youngest and views the world as perpetual misery and just wishes that everyone would leave her alone. Pretty Elfine, all of seventeen, spends her days running wild and imagining herself a dryad, twigs and leaves included. And then there are the boys, most notably, Reuben, who loves farming, but Amos doesn't trust him, and Seth, an oversexed, hunk of manhood who seems to have nothing but sex on the brain, but the reality is much more interesting. And then the ancient, muttering Adam, who 'cletters' the dishes with thorny twigs.

In short, Flora has all sorts of interesting projects at hand, and it's a task that she falls to with glee with great practicality and not a little cunning on her part. It's a mad riot of a novel, generously slathered with wicked parodies of the overwrought prose of D.H. Lawrence and Thomas Hardy, asides to the writing of Gaskell and a great withering jab at the Brontes. For anyone who has survived a university level course in nineteenth century English lit, it's the perfect antidote to the general depression that follows such a course, and it's worth it. Asute readers will note that Flora blithely goes about her mission of improving everyone's lives and being a dreadful snob about it. It takes a little while to realize that Gibbons is making fun of her heroine just as much as she is of the popular novels of the time.

Flora never quite seems to see the chaos that she is spreading about in her wake as she goes about her tidying, and assumes that she is 'doing the right thing.' From the names of the farm's herd of cows -- Aimless, Feckless, Graceless and Pointless and the stud bull, Big Business -- to the real intent and mystery of Aunt Ada, who saw something nasty in the woodshed, it's a grand read of a book. You'll find yourself giggling over the descriptions, the sly wit, and the oft-times ridiculous situations that arise in this tale of a tormented family. I enjoyed myself immensely, and found it vastly entertaining and worth it to mend the blues for an evening. It's not a very long book, just under 240 pages, and if you can, find the new release from Penguin Books, with a new introduction by Lynne Truss, and a delightful cover by artist Roz Chast. There have been several film versions of this one made, most notably with Kate Beckensale as Flora, and I urge anyone who hasn't read the book to do so. You'll never look at English Literature in quite the same way again.

La Hija de Robert Poste : Stella Gibbons : 9788493760137 La Hija de Robert Poste Paperback By (author) Stella Gibbons , Translated by Jose C Vales Share Add to basket Add to wishlist Description In this classic tale, Flora Poste, orphaned at 19, chooses to live with relatives at Cold Comfort Farm in Sussex, where cows are named Feckless, Aimless, Pointless, and Graceless. The proprietors, the dour Starkadder family, are tyrannized by Flora s mysterious aunt, who controls the household from a locked room. Flora s confident and clever management of an alarming cast of eccentricsfrom the mad woman in the attic to the peasants with their West Country accents and mystical herbsprovides a satirical look at a dark, rural scene."En este cuento clasico, Flora Poste, huerfana a los 19 anos, decide vivir con familiares en Cold Comfort Farm en Sussex, donde las vacas se llaman Casquivana, Desnortada, Ociosa y Desgarbada.

Los propietarios, la familia adusta Starkadder, son tiranizados por la misteriosa tia de Flora, que controla la casa desde una habitacion cerrada con llave. Las gestiones seguras e inteligentes de Flora de un elenco alarmante de excentricosdesde la loca en el desvan hasta los campesinos con sus acentos de West Country y hierbas misticasproporcionan una mirada satirica a una escena rural oscura."" show more Product details 130 x 198 x 24mm | 439.98g Publication date Classics About Stella Gibbons Stella Gibbons was an English novelist, a journalist, a poet, and a short story writer. Jose C. Vales is a translator." show more Review Text Ganadora del Prix Femina-Vie Hereuse en 1933, y mítico long-seller, La hija de Robert Poste está considerada la novela cómica más perfecta de la literatura inglesa del XX.

Brutalmente divertida, dotada de un ingenio irreverente, narra la historia de Flora Poste, una joven que, tras haber recibido una educación «cara, deportiva y larga», se queda huérfana y acaba siendo acogida por sus parientes, los rústicos y asilvestrados Starkadder, en la bucólica granja de Cold Comfort Farm, en plena Inglaterra profunda. Una vez allí, Flora tendrá ocasión de intimar con toda una galería de extraños y taciturnos personajes: Amos, llamado por Dios; Seth, dominado por el despertar de su prominente sexualidad; Meriam, la chica que se queda preñada cada año «cuando florece la parravirgen»; o la tía Ada Doom, la solitaria matriarca, ya entrada en años, que en una ocasión «vio algo sucio en la leñera». Flora, entonces, decide poner orden en la vida de Cold Comfort Farm, y allí empezará su desgracia. show more Follow us

Question: In literature, where did the cows Aimless, Feckless, Graceless and Pointless live?
Answer: Cold Comfort Farm