基本信息出版社：Penguin Classics
页码：256 页
出版日期：2006年03月
ISBN：0143039598
条形码：9780143039594
装帧：平装
正文语种：英语

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A hilarious parody of D. H. Lawrence and Thomas Hardy’s earthy, melodramatic novels, the deliriously entertaining Cold Comfort Farm is “very probably the funniest book ever written” (The Sunday Times).
作者简介 Stella Gibbons (1902–1989), novelist, poet, and short-story writer, was born in London. Cold Comfort Farm, her first novel, won the Femina Vie Heureuse Prize. Her other novels include Nightingale Wood, Westwood, and Beside the Pearly Waters.

Lynne Truss, author of the bestseller Eats, Shoots & Leaves, is a writer and journalist.

Roz Chast is a regular cartoonist for the New Yorker, and her work has also appeared in Redbook, Scientific American, Fast Company, and the Harvard Business Review.