Stella Gibbons

Stella Gibbons, autora de la inolvidable "La hija de Robert Poste", vuelve a ofrecernos una novela deliciosa, plena de ingenio y energía, acerca del amor y la nostalgia.Ambientada en el turbulento y bombardeado Londres de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, "Westwood" narra la historia de Margaret Streggles, una joven de aires janeaustenianos, con un talento innato para pasarse el dia en las nubes, un temperamento romantico y todo tipo de aspiraciones culturales. Su madre insiste en que no es el tipo de muchacha que atrae a los hombres, justo lo opuesto a su amiga Hilda, una cabecita loca capaz de sonreir y flirtear sin tregua en una ciudad marcada por las tribulaciones y penurias de la guerra. Pero la existencia de Margaret cambia por completo cuando encuentra por casualidad una cartilla de racionamiento en Hampstead Heath y, con ella, todo un mundo de intelectuales, artistas y aristocratas, encarnados en la figura del pintor Alex Niland y de su suegro, el famoso e insolente dramaturgo Gerard Challis.

Vuelve La hija de Robert Poste en una nueva edición ideal para redescubrir un clásico de la novela cómica inglesa. Brutalmente divertida, dotada de un ingenio irreverente, narra la historia de Flora

Guanyadora del Prix Femina-Vie Hereuse el 1933, i mític long-seller, «La filla de Robert Poste» està considerada la novel·la còmica més perfecta de la literatura anglesa del XX.Brutalment divertida,

''We are not like other folk, maybe, but there have always been Starkadders at Cold Comfort Farm''. Sensible, sophisticated Flora Poste has been expensively educated to do everything but earn a living. When she is orphaned at twenty, she decides her only option is to descend on relatives - the doomed Starkadders at the aptly named Cold Comfort Farm. There is Judith in a scarlet shawl, heaving with remorse for an unspoken wickedness; raving old Ada Doom, who once saw something nasty in the woodshed; lustful Seth and despairing Reuben, Judith''s two sons; and there is Amos, preaching fire and damnation to one and all. As the sukebind flowers, Flora takes each of the family in hand and brings order to their chaos. "Cold Comfort Farm" is a sharp and clever parody of the melodramatic and rural novel.

Wilfred Davis, quiet, retired, respectable widower, is sitting and sobbing on a park bench. He has lost his daughter and any sense of purpose. A mysterious stranger passes him a handkerchief, and strikes up a conversation that leads to friendship and an unconventional new home for Wilfred. Mary Davis wants only four things out of life: a husband and three children, so at seventeen she runs away from school, her father and her home and moves to London to find them. Only a few months later Mary is engaged, but love and marriage promise to be very different from her childhood daydreams. For Mary and Wilfred, it seems Fate has taken a hand, or is there another kind of guiding spirit at play[unk] Stella Gibbons' final novel, written in the 1970s but only discovered many years after her death, is published here for the first time.

Creepy. Peculiar. Fairy. Goblin. Liar. Weirdo. Crank. Genius. No one knows what to make of Juliet Slater, not even her mother. And clothes, boys, school, friends, the changing seasons and what other people think - none of these things seem to matter to Juliet. She spends hours in her room with incomprehensible mathematical text books, her mind voyaging in strange seas of thought, alone. Is she a genius? It might take the rest of her life to find out. While Stella Gibbons was celebrated for her beloved bestseller Cold Comfort Farm, the manuscript for Pure Juliet lay unseen and forgotten until it was brought to light by her family in 2014, and is published here for the first time in Vintage Classics. A tale that travels from an eco-millionaire's British country idyll to an Arabian Nights-style fantasy of the Middle East, this is a treat for fans of this witty, curious and always surprising author.

When sensible, sophisticated Flora Poste is orphaned at nineteen, she decides her only choice is to descend upon relatives in deepest Sussex. At the aptly named Cold Comfort Farm, she meets the doomed Starkadders: cousin Judith, heaving with remorse for unspoken wickedness; Amos, preaching fire and damnation; their sons, lustful Seth and despairing Reuben; child of nature Elfine; and crazed old Aunt Ada Doom, who has kept to her bedroom for the last twenty years. But Flora loves nothing better than to organize other people. Armed with common sense and a strong will, she resolves to take each of the family in hand. A hilarious and merciless parody of rural melodramas, Cold Comfort Farm (1932) is one of the best-loved comic novels of all time.

One of the BBCs 100 Novels That Shaped Our WorldBrilliant ... very probably the funniest book ever written Sunday TimesWhen sensible, sophisticated Flora Poste is orphaned at nineteen, she decides her only choice is to descend upon relatives in deepest Sussex. At the aptly-named Cold Comfort Farm, she meets the doomed Starkadders: cousin Judith, heaving with remorse for unspoken wickedness Amos, preaching fire and damnation their sons, lustful Seth and despairing Reuben child of nature Elfine and crazed old Aunt Ada Doom, who has kept to her bedroom for the last twenty years. But Flora loves nothing better than to organise other people. Armed with common sense and a strong will, she resolves to take each of the family in hand. A hilarious and ruthless parody of rural melodramas and purple prose, Cold Comfort Farm is one of the best-loved comic novels of all time.Screamingly funny and wildly subversive Marian Keyes, GuardianThe Penguin Classics edition of Stella Gibbonss Cold Comfort Farm is introduced by Lynne Truss, author of Eats, Shoots and Leaves.If you enjoyed Cold Comfort Farm you might like George and Weedon Grossmiths Diary of a Nobody, also available in Pe

Robert Postes child is back at Cold Comfort Farm. Flora finds the farm transformed into a twee haven filled with Toby jugs and peasant pottery, and rooms labelled Quiete Retreate and Greate laundrie.

Tras el formidable éxito de La hija de Robert Poste, Stella Gibbons nos deleita con una sátira sobre el estiraido establishment artístico inglés. Humor inteligente con un delicioso aroma rústico, que nada tiene que envidiarle a su antecesora en cuanto a descaro y afan de satira.Dieciseis años despues de haber puesto el pie por ultima vez en el pintoresco pueblo de Howling, Flora Poste, la discola y encantadora protagonista de La hija de Robert Poste, vuelve a la carga para socorrer a los atribulados Starkadder, propietarios de la granja de Cold Comfort. La finca ha sido rehabilitada como un museo decorado en falso estilo rustico ingles, y se convierte en el lugar de celebracion de una conferencia del Grupo de Expertos Internacionales, entre los que se cuentan inefables pintores, escultores insufribles, excentricos sabios orientales, y toda una pletora de intelectuales fastidiosos cuya maxima obsesion es dejar pasmados a los lugareños.

Brutalmente divertida, dotada de un ingenio irreverente, narra la historia de Flora Poste, una joven que, tras haber recibido una educación «cara, deportiva y larga», se queda huérfana y acaba siendo