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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.

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Average rating: 3.87 · 43,406 ratings · 3,739 reviews · 45 distinct works • Similar authors

	Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons, Lynne Truss (Introduction) , Roz Chast (Illustrations) 3.91 avg rating — 38,548 ratings — published 1932 — 75 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) 3.67 avg rating — 1,496 ratings — published 1938 — 18 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 by Stella Gibbons, Lynne Truss (Introduction) 3.49 avg rating — 580 ratings — published 1946 — 8 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 3.35 avg rating — 887 ratings — published 1940 — 14 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 3.16 avg rating — 376 ratings — published 1949 — 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
	Starlight 3.53 avg rating — 196 ratings — published 1967 — 4 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 3.86 avg rating — 154 ratings — published 1944 — 8 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 3.46 avg rating — 179 ratings — published 1949 — 4 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 3.52 avg rating — 137 ratings — published 1956 — 6 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
	Pure Juliet 3.08 avg rating — 130 ratings — published 2016 — 4 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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Quotes by Stella Gibbons

“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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November 2015 New School Classics Group Read

1988, Matilda by Roald Dahl, 240 pages

26 votes, 17.3%

1982, Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally, 429 pages

25 votes, 16.7%

1997, Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden, 434 pages

17 votes, 11.3%

1930, As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner, 267 pages

15 votes, 10.0%

1988, The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho, 197 pages

13 votes, 8.7%

1987, Beloved by Toni Morrison, 324 pages

11 votes, 7.3%

1932, Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons, 233 pages

8 votes, 5.3%

1989, The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan, 288 pages

7 votes, 4.7%

1957, The Baron in the Trees by Italo Calvino, 217 pages

7 votes, 4.7%

1959, A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry, 160 pages

5 votes, 3.3%

1932, The Radetzky March by Joseph Roth, 352 pages

4 votes, 2.7%

1940, The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene, 222 pages

4 votes, 2.7%

1949, The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles, 342 pages

3 votes, 2.0%

1928, Quicksand by Nella Larsen, 192 pages

2 votes, 1.3%

1939, Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo, 243 pages

2 votes, 1.3%

1931, The Road Back by Erich Maria Remarque, 352 pages

1 vote, 0.7%

1974, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard, 288 pages

0 votes, 0.0%

1997, Out by Natsuo Kirino, 400 pages

0 votes, 0.0%

150 total votes

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