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Distressingly

  • Writer: John Service
    John Service
  • Jul 27
  • 1 min read

In this distressingly frivolous story Miss Gibbons points her satyrical finger at a certain type of much-read, earthy, passionate novel - the kind of story in which peasants have babies in cowsheds and push each other down wells.

Dust-jacket wording of "Cold Comfort Farm", Stella Gibbons (1902-1989), Longman,  1932

 
 
 

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