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Stella Gibbons
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Oxford Bookworms Library 6: Cold Comfort Farm
Автор: Stella Gibbons Жанр: Oxford University Press Издательство: Oxford University Press Год: 2008 Страниц: 144 Дата загрузки: 20 декабря 20102009-06-11
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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...
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Cold Comfort Farm
Автор: Stella Gibbons Жанр: Penguin Group Издательство: Penguin Group Год: 1998 Страниц: 240 Дата загрузки: 21 июля 20092003-08-17
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A classic of its kind, a dazzling parody of the earthy, melodramatic novels of the period. Flora Poste has been expensively educated to do everything but earn her own living. When she is orphaned at twenty, she decides her only option is to go and live with her relatives the Starkadders at «Cold Comfort Farm». What relatives, though: Judith, alone in her grief; raving old Ada Doom, who once saw something nasty in the woodshed; Amos, called by God; Seth, smouldering with sex; and Elfine, who just needs a little polish. Flora feels it incumbent upon her to bring order into the chaos. And she turns out to be remarkably good at it.
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