Wednesday, September 23, 2009

cold comfort farm - stella gibbons (1932)

modern young lady with great good sense meets accursed countryside complete with foggy gloom and efficiently shakes it into shape and cheer. shades of (a young) mary poppins/ jeeves/ simon templar versus the moors of wuthering heights/ jane eyre/ silas marner with the cloister and the hearth thrown in.

this has got to be the most delicious confection of wickedly understated wit that i have had the absolute pleasure of reading in years.

content: 5/5 (i love parodies)
style: incomparable

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