Cold Comfort Farm (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Cold Comfort Farm (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)"Quite simply one of the funniest satirical novels of the last century." Nancy Pearl, NPR's Morning Edition The deliriously entertaining Cold Comfort Farm is "very probably the funniest book ever written" (The Sunday Times, London), a hilarious parody of D. H. Lawrence's and Thomas Hardy's earthy, melodramatic novels. When the recently orphaned socialite Flora Poste descends on her relatives at the aptly named Cold Comfort Farm in deepest Sussex, she

and the young director

All signs point to an intruder

A sinister figure known only as the Longshadow Man has tracked it to American shores

and a plucky

Logan and Rosemary find they aren’t quite living the lives of adventure they imagined for themselves

After a wild bet

by an author The New York Times has hailed as "inspired

award-winning business reporterCharles Duhigg takes us to the thrilling edge of scientific discoveries that explain why habits exist and how they can be changed

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she takes aim at everything from public school administrations to the mainstream media

and around the world

who outsmarts men and demons alike to save her family