Christmas at Cold Comfort Farm

Author(s)

• Gibbons, Stella
• Smith, Alexander McCall

Bibliographic Information

Christmas at Cold Comfort Farm

Stella Gibbons ; with an introduction by Alexander McCall Smith

（Penguin books）（A Penguin original, . Fiction）

Penguin, 2011

• : pbk

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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 melange 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.

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Details

• NCID: BB0771501X
• ISBN:
  • 9780143120117
• LCCN: 2011041246
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New York
• Pages/Volumes: xvii, 298 p.
• Size: 20 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PR6013.I24
  • DC23 : 823/.912
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Rural families -- Fiction
  • LCSH : Farm life -- Fiction
  • LCSH : England -- Fiction
  • LCSH : Christmas stories
  • LCSH : Domestic fiction
  • FREE : Pastoral fiction. gsafd
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00474814
  • BA24098568