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Stella Gibbons

Born

in London, The United Kingdom

January 05, 1902

Died

December 19, 1989

Genre

Children's Books, Literature & Fiction, Poetry

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Stella Dorothea Gibbons was an English novelist, journalist, poet and short-story writer.

Her first novel, Cold Comfort Farm, won the Femina Vie Heureuse Prize for 1933. A satire and parody of the pessimistic ruralism of Thomas Hardy, his followers and especially Precious Bain by Mary Webb -the "loam and lovechild" genre, as some called it, Cold Comfort Farm introduces a self-confident young woman, quite self-consciously modern, pragmatic and optimistic, into the grim, fate-bound and dark rural scene those novelists tended to portray. ...more

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Average rating: 3.83 · 65,630 ratings · 6,596 reviews · 61 distinct works • Similar authors

	Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons, Roz Chast (Illustrator), Lynne Truss (Introduction) 3.88 avg rating — 55,980 ratings — published 1932 — 149 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Nightingale Wood by Stella Gibbons, Sophie Dahl (Introduction) 3.70 avg rating — 1,880 ratings — published 1938 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Christmas at Cold Comfort Farm 3.34 avg rating — 1,662 ratings — published 1940 — 28 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Westwood 3.56 avg rating — 877 ratings — published 1946 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Woods in Winter 3.88 avg rating — 533 ratings — published 1970 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Conference at Cold Comfort Farm 3.14 avg rating — 634 ratings — published 1949 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Starlight 3.58 avg rating — 407 ratings — published 1967 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Bachelor 3.83 avg rating — 320 ratings — published 1944 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Matchmaker 3.53 avg rating — 300 ratings — published 1949 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Here Be Dragons 3.57 avg rating — 275 ratings — published 1956 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“One of the disadvantages of almost universal education was the fact that all kinds of persons acquired a familiarity with one's favorite writers. It gave one a curious feeling; it was like seeing a drunken stranger wrapped in one's dressing gown.”
― Stella Gibbons, Cold Comfort Farm

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“Well, when I am fifty-three or so I would like to write a novel as good as Persuasion but with a modern setting, of course. For the next thirty years or so I shall be collecting material for it. If anyone asks me what I work at, I shall say, 'Collecting material'. No one can object to that.”
― Stella Gibbons, Cold Comfort Farm

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“I saw something nasty in the woodshed.”
― Stella Gibbons, Cold Comfort Farm

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Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald, 317 pgs, 1933

63 votes, 18.5%

The Castle by Franz Kafka, 316 pgs, 1926

39 votes, 11.4%

My Ántonia by Willa Cather, 232 pgs, 1918

34 votes, 10.0%

Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner, 320 pgs, 1936

29 votes, 8.5%

All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren, 439 pgs, 1946

25 votes, 7.3%

Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernières, 437 pgs, 1994

20 votes, 5.9%

The Wreath by Sigrid Undset, 305 pgs, 1920

20 votes, 5.9%

The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa, 544 pgs, 1982

18 votes, 5.3%

Cold Comfort Farm, by Stella Gibbons, 233 pgs, 1932

18 votes, 5.3%

Peyton Place by Grace Metalious, 384 pgs, 1956

13 votes, 3.8%

Ross Poldark by Winston Graham, 379 pgs, 1945

13 votes, 3.8%

The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton, 370 pgs, 1913

11 votes, 3.2%

The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim, 232 pgs, 1922

9 votes, 2.6%

The Unknown Soldier by Väinö Linna, 338 pgs, 1954

8 votes, 2.3%

The Professor's House by Willa Cather, 256 pgs, 1925

7 votes, 2.1%

The Fixer by Bernard Malamud, 335 pgs, 1966

4 votes, 1.2%

A House for Mr Biswas by V.S. Naipaul, 623 pgs, 1961

4 votes, 1.2%

Martin Eden by Jack London, 480 pgs, 1909

3 votes, 0.9%

Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain, 688 pgs, 1933

3 votes, 0.9%

341 total votes

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