Cold Comfort Farm
British novelist, 1902–1989.
Cold Comfort Farm is a 1932 novel by Stella Gibbons.
On 5 of the 16 lists it was eligible for.
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At a glance
- Author
- Stella Gibbons
- First published
- 1932
- Length
- 256 pages (UK paperback)
- Genre
- Comic novels and satire, Rural life
Is Cold Comfort Farm worth reading?
5 of the 16 best-of lists it could have made include it, among them 100 novels everyone should read (The Telegraph) and 100 novels that shaped our world (BBC Arts).
| List | Place | Original |
|---|---|---|
| 100 novels everyone should read (The Telegraph, 2009) | No. 92 | See the list |
| 100 novels that shaped our world (BBC Arts, 2019) | Listed | See the list |
| The 100 best novels written in English (The Guardian / Observer, 2015) | Listed | See the list |
| The 100 greatest British novels (BBC Culture, 2015) | No. 92 | See the list |
| The Big Read top 100 (BBC, 2003) | No. 88 | See the list |
Best edition of Cold Comfort Farm
The edition we link to is the Penguin Classics paperback (2020), 256 pages.
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics (paperback, 2020)
- Pages
- 256
- ISBN
- 9780241418895
How critics and readers rate Cold Comfort Farm
Critics rate it most highly: it earned 31% of the points available on critics' lists, against 15% on readers' and booksellers' lists.
Share of the available points it earned on each kind of list it was eligible for. How the scores work
Books like Cold Comfort Farm
If you liked Cold Comfort Farm, try The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy or I Capture the Castle.
