"Cold Comfort Farm" 1964 GIBBONS, Stella (SOLD) Playing Cards

"Cold Comfort Farm" 1964 GIBBONS, Stella (SOLD) Playing CardsGIBBONS, Stella [254] pp. The Dial Press 1964 8 1 4" x 5 7 8" Review copy slip laid in Illustrated by Charles Saxon *front flap separated from jacket* A spectacularly sly and amusing novel about a suddenly orphaned gentlewoman forced to live among her hopelessly rustic extended family in the country. The novel is the genesis for the oft repeated phrase: "There's something nasty in the woodshed." Basis for an underrated and delicious 1995 film directed

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He likes simple things and taking it easy

of beautiful

carries their friendship through to late 1954

and pancakes -- Hors-d'uvres -- First course dishes -- Soups -- Fish -- Meats

April Greiman

The pretense did not last long

the novel is set amidst the bohemian milieu of the Left Bank in Paris

DeathPan died on 12 October 2008 in Paris

he did not win a competition due to his lack of pattern-making or sewing skills

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