"The Country Life (novel) The Country Life is a comedic novel by Rachel Cusk, first published in 1997, which draws on Stella Gibbons' ""Cold Comfort Farm"" and Charlotte Brontë's ""Jane Eyre"". It won a 1998 Somerset Maugham Award. The novel is a comedy that draws on both ""Cold Comfort Farm"" by Stella Gibbons and ""Jane Eyre"" by Charlotte Brontë. Stella Benson, the first-person narrator, abruptly abandons her life in London to take a position as carer to Martin, the wheelchair-bound teenage son of the wealthy and eccentric Madden family, in a farm near a small village in rural Sussex. The"
"Cold Comfort Farm Cold Comfort Farm is a comic novel by English author Stella Gibbons, published in 1932. It parodies the romanticised, sometimes doom-laden accounts of rural life popular at the time, by writers such as Mary Webb. Following the death of her parents, the book's heroine, Flora Poste, finds she is possessed ""of every art and grace save that of earning her own living"". She decides to take advantage of the fact that ""no limits are set, either by society or one's own conscience, to the amount one may impose on one's relatives"", and settles on visiting her distant"
"US and UK. The book inspired Mellon family heiress Cordelia Scaife May to name her home ""Cold Comfort"", and to name her philanthropic foundation Colcom Foundation. Cold Comfort Farm Cold Comfort Farm is a comic novel by English author Stella Gibbons, published in 1932. It parodies the romanticised, sometimes doom-laden accounts of rural life popular at the time, by writers such as Mary Webb. Following the death of her parents, the book's heroine, Flora Poste, finds she is possessed ""of every art and grace save that of earning her own living"". She decides to take advantage of the fact that"
"Huxley (1932) 57. Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons (1932) 58. Nineteen Nineteen by John Dos Passos (1932) 59. Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller (1934) 60. Scoop by Evelyn Waugh (1938) 61. Murphy by Samuel Beckett (1938) 62. The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler (1939) 63. Party Going by Henry Green (1939) 64. At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O’Brien (1939) 65. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (1939) 66. Joy in the Morning by PG Wodehouse (1946) 67. All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren (1946) 68. Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry (1947) 69. The Heat of"
"The Red Napoleon The Red Napoleon is a 1929 novel by Floyd Gibbons predicting a Soviet conquest of Europe and invasion of America. The novel contains strong racial overtones such as expressed fear of the yellow peril and of inter-racial breeding. However, the characters expressing these views are exposed in the text as being bigoted and ill-informed, as is one of the main U.S. character's views of the Soviet Union's free-love-but-with-male-accountability laws. ""The Red Napoleon"" was published in 1929 and projects the next few years. In it, Joseph Stalin is killed by an assassin in 1932. A Red Army leader"
"mockery of contemporary and indeed future artistic and intellectual trends, before the male Starkadders return from overseas, wreck the centre and restore the farm to its original primitive state. The book was moderately successful but, Oliver remarks, does not compare with the original. In 1950 Gibbons published her ""Collected Poems"", and in the same year was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Throughout the 1950s she continued, at roughly two-year intervals, to produce politely received novels, none of which created any particular stir. Among these was ""Fort of the Bear"" (1953), in which she departed from her"
"a relatively faithful account of her childhood and early adult life with, according to Oliver, ""only the thinnest veil of fictional gauze cover[ing] raw experience"". ""Miss Linsey and Pa"" (1936) was thought by Nicola Beauman, in her analysis of women writers from 1914 to 1939, to parody Radclyffe Hall's 1928 lesbian novel ""The Well of Loneliness"". Gibbons's final prewar novels were ""Nightingale Wood"" (1935)—""Cinderella brought right up to date""—and ""My American"" (1939), which Oliver considers her most escapist novel, ""a variant of Hans Christian Andersen's ""The Snow Queen""."" Gibbons always considered herself a serious poet rather than a comic writer."
"Glaswegian girl called Joanna, resembles in many ways her own life in search of independence. Melrose, who selected the book personally, recorded the ""profound impression"" it made on him. Only two years later she published her second and last novel, ""The Camomile"", another portrait of a woman living in the Second City of the Empire at the turn of the century. Neither of her first two books had brought her fame or fortune. She only became well known after finishing a controversial biography of Scotland's national poet Robert Burns in 1930. Orthodox Burns fans dismissed this frank, demystifying account of"
"Bondage by W Somerset Maugham (1915) 45. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (1920) 46. Ulysses by James Joyce (1922) 47. Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis (1922) 48. A Passage to India by EM Forster (1924) 49. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes by Anita Loos (1925) 50. Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (1925) 51. The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald (1925) 52. Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend Warner (1926) 53. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway (1926) 54. The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett (1929) 55. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner (1930) 56. Brave New World by Aldous"
"Skinnybones Skinnybones is a 1982 children's novel written by Barbara Park. It is Park's most popular book, and has won numerous awards for children's literature. It was followed up by a sequel in 1988 called ""Almost Starring Skinnybones."" The story is narrated by the main character, Alex Frankovitch, a rather unpopular and awkward grade school boy. After writing a letter in a promotional contest for a cat food company, Alex goes on to describe key points in his young life, mainly having to do with little league baseball, occasionally going off on tangents or telling other stories from his life"
"publishing. She continues to influence the literary world through her revealing memoirs about her editorial career. The first book of her own writing to appear was the short story collection ""An Unavoidable Delay"" (1962), and she has published two further works of fiction: a novel entitled ""Don't Look at Me Like That"" (1967) and in 2011 another volume of stories, ""Midsummer Night in the Workhouse"". She is best known, however, for her books of memoirs, the first of which was ""Instead of a Letter"" in 1963. These memoirs were not written in chronological order, ""Yesterday Morning"" (2002) being the account"
"Jane Austen (1816) 8. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (1818) 9. Nightmare Abbey by Thomas Love Peacock (1818) 10. The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket by Edgar Allan Poe (1838) 11. Sybil by Benjamin Disraeli (1845) 12. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë (1847) 13. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë (1847) 14. Vanity Fair by William Thackeray (1848) 15. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens (1850) 16. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1850) 17. Moby-Dick by Herman Melville (1851) 18. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (1865) 19. The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins (1868) 20. Little Women by Louisa"
"foraged foodstuffs) into a straightforward book on wild food. Capitalizing on the growing return-to-nature movement in 1962, the resulting work, ""Stalking the Wild Asparagus"", became an instant success. Gibbons then produced the cookbooks ""Stalking the Blue-Eyed Scallop"" in 1964 and ""Stalking the Healthful Herbs"" in 1966. He was widely published in various magazines, including two pieces that appeared in ""National Geographic Magazine"". The first article, in the July 1972 issue, described a two-week stay on an uninhabited island off the coast of Maine where Gibbons along with his wife Freda and a few family friends relied solely on the island's"
"Stella Dallas (novel) Stella Dallas is a 1923 novel by Olive Higgins Prouty, written in response to the death of her three-year-old daughter from encephalitis. It tells the story of a woman who sacrifices her own happiness for the sake of her daughter. The novel was subsequently adapted into a stage play in 1924 and movies in 1925, 1937, and 1990, the latter titled ""Stella"" and starring Bette Midler. It was also the basis for the radio serial ""Stella Dallas"", which aired daily for 18 years and is often credited as being the first soap opera. Prouty was reportedly displeased"
"with her characters' portrayals therein. Stella Dallas (novel) Stella Dallas is a 1923 novel by Olive Higgins Prouty, written in response to the death of her three-year-old daughter from encephalitis. It tells the story of a woman who sacrifices her own happiness for the sake of her daughter. The novel was subsequently adapted into a stage play in 1924 and movies in 1925, 1937, and 1990, the latter titled ""Stella"" and starring Bette Midler. It was also the basis for the radio serial ""Stella Dallas"", which aired daily for 18 years and is often credited as being the first soap"
"actions -a history of being ""renters and hopeless wage slaves ... [is] some reason for revolution... Out of the cheapest and ugliest cliches of the trash literature of his time, Gibbons has shaped an ironic satire of capitalist America's greed and foolhardy racism."" (p.378-81) The Red Napoleon The Red Napoleon is a 1929 novel by Floyd Gibbons predicting a Soviet conquest of Europe and invasion of America. The novel contains strong racial overtones such as expressed fear of the yellow peril and of inter-racial breeding. However, the characters expressing these views are exposed in the text as being bigoted and"
"was one of the runners-up again in 1929 (""Clearing Weather"") and 1933 (""Swift Rivers""). Runner-up works are now called Newbery Honor Books, so latter-day editions are authorized to display a silver seal on the cover. Meigs won a Little, Brown and Co. prize competition with ""The Trade Wind"". Little, Brown published that book in 1927 and subsequently a few more of her works including the children's biographies of Louisa May Alcott and Jane Addams. Meigs is best known for the Alcott biography, ""Invincible Louisa: The Story of the Author of ""Little Women"""", which won the Newbery Medal in 1934. It"
"psychology. She won the Prix Femina Vie Heureuse for ""Precious Bane"". After her death that Stanley Baldwin, then Prime Minister, brought about her commercial success through his approbation; at a Literary Fund dinner in 1928, Baldwin referred to her as a neglected genius. Consequently her collected works were republished in a standard edition by Jonathan Cape, becoming best sellers in the 1930s and running into many editions. Stella Gibbons's 1932 novel ""Cold Comfort Farm"" was a parody of Webb's work, as well as of other ""loam and lovechild"" writers like Sheila Kaye-Smith and Mary E. Mann and, further back, Thomas"
"her 1927 book ""The Wandering Scholars"", and translating their Latin poetry in the companion volume ""Medieval Latin Lyrics"". A second anthology, ""More Latin Lyrics"", was compiled in the 1940s but not published until after her death. Her other works range widely in subject matter. For example, she also wrote plays. Her first play was ""The Spoiled Buddha"", which was performed at the Opera House, Belfast, by the Ulster Literary Society. Her ""The Abbe Prevost"" was staged in 1935. Her historical novel ""Peter Abelard"" was published in 1933. It was critically well received and became a bestseller. She also wrote many"
"national television commercial. He leaves school that day, nervous about filming the commercial, but eager to be a big star and hoping things will go well. Skinnybones Skinnybones is a 1982 children's novel written by Barbara Park. It is Park's most popular book, and has won numerous awards for children's literature. It was followed up by a sequel in 1988 called ""Almost Starring Skinnybones."" The story is narrated by the main character, Alex Frankovitch, a rather unpopular and awkward grade school boy. After writing a letter in a promotional contest for a cat food company, Alex goes on to describe"
"depictions of country life; Webb was a favourite of the British Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin. Gibbons had first become familiar with the genre when she provided summaries of Webb's ""The Golden Arrow"" for the ""Evening Standard's"" 1928 serialisation. She found the writing overblown and the plotting ridiculous, and decided that her own first novel would be a comic parody of the genre. By February 1932 she had completed the manuscript and delivered it to her publishers, Longmans. Gibbons's chosen title for her novel had been ""Curse God Farm"", before her friend Elizabeth Coxhead, who had connections in the Hinckley district"
"secretary to the editor of the London ""Evening Standard"". Within a short time she was promoted, and became a reporter and features writer at the then substantial salary of just under £500 a year, although she was not given a by-line until 1928. During her ""Evening Standard"" years, Gibbons persevered with poetry, and in September 1927 her poem ""The Giraffes"" appeared in ""The Criterion"", a literary magazine edited by T. S. Eliot. This work was read and admired by Virginia Woolf, who enquired if Gibbons would write poems for the Woolf publishing house, the Hogarth Press. In January 1928 ,"
"Gibson published a chronicle of the vicissitudes of rewriting for the sake of this production with a nonfiction book in the following year, ""The Seesaw Log"". His most famous play is ""The Miracle Worker"" (1959), the story of Helen Keller's childhood education, which won him the Tony Award for Best Play after he adapted it from his original 1957 telefilm script. He adapted the work again for the 1962 film version, receiving an Academy Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay; the same actresses who previously had won Tony Awards for their performances in the stage version, Anne Bancroft and Patty"
"Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing (1962) 82. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess (1962) 83. A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood (1964) 84. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote (1966) 85. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (1966) 86. Portnoy’s Complaint by Philip Roth (1969) 87. Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont by Elizabeth Taylor (1971) 88. Rabbit Redux by John Updike (1971) 89. Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison (1977) 90. A Bend in the River by VS Naipaul (1979) 91. Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie (1981) 92. Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson (1981) 93. Money: A Suicide Note by Martin"
"chapters by virtuous women. During the 1930s she wrote numerous short stories for Christian magazines, for broadcast on the BBC Children's Hour, and for lavishly illustrated children's annuals. A novel, ""Forbidden Doors"", (1929) was published in England and, somewhat revised as ""Tenthragon"" (1930), in the United States. Both received respectful reviews. ""Tenthragon"" was succeeded by the first of many Christian books for children, ""Nicolas Chooses White May"" (1930), and two additional stories with children as protagonists, ""Pippin's House"" (1931) and ""Green Emeralds for the King"" (1938). She also wrote seven services of song, short narratives with interspersed hymns furnished by"
"novel for children was ""The Cabin Faced West"" (1958). Her autobiography ""Homesick, My Own Story"" (1982) won a National Book Award for Young People's Literature in the Children's Fiction category and was a runner-up for the Newbery Medal. The latter American Library Association award recognizes the year's best American children's book but almost always goes to fiction. Later she won two annual Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards for children's nonfiction. In 1986, she received the Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal from the ALA, which recognizes a living author or illustrator, whose books, published in the United States, have made ""a substantial and"
"books. The first was ""Traveler's Rest"", published in South Carolina in 1938, was an historical novel based on his ancestors' experience in South Carolina. According to Time, the book was not received well by his neighbors in Clemson. The second was ""I Saw England"", published in 1941 by Alfred A. Knopf, which told of his interaction with the British during wartime. The last was ""Red hills and Cotton: An Upcountry Memory"", his best-known book was published in 1942 by Alfred A. Knopf and republished in 1960 by the University of South Carolina Press. It has been in print ever since."
"and ""Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff"". Perhaps her best-known film roles were as Myrtle Mae Simmons in the 1950 film adaptation of Mary Chase's play ""Harvey"", as Roberta in the 1952 Three Stooges short subject ""Cuckoo on a Choo Choo"", and as Nabura, a villainous Japanese agent in the 1945 serial ""Secret Agent X-9"". She married actor Jack Oakie in 1950 and remained with him until his death on January 23, 1978. After his death, she arranged the posthumous publication of her late husband's book, ""Jack Oakie's Double Takes"" and also published a number of other books"
"she scored her first success with ""Come Out of the Kitchen"" in 1916. The story was made into a play and later the 1948 film ""Spring in Park Lane."" She followed it with a series of other short novels, many of which were staged and (increasingly) made into films. Her novel in verse ""Forsaking All Others"" (1933) about a tragic love affair, and many consider her greatest work. In the 1920s and 1930s, many of her stories were used for motion pictures, such as ""Are Parents People?"" (1925), ""Roberta"" (1935), and ""Irene"" (1940), taking her to Hollywood. She also became"
"Rock: Sylvan Press, 1945 2. The More We Are Together:Sampson Low,1947 3. The Widening Mirror:Sampson Low, 1949 4. A Journey With Love: Bridgehead USA 1955. 5. The Titles My Own : (as David Eames) Bless1955. 6. The Faces Of Love : (no 4 revised) 1967. 7. As The River Flows: Milton House, 1974. 8. Company Of Three: Milton House, 1974. 9. Don't Lose Your Cool Dad: Milton House 1975 10. BarbicanÕs End: William Kimber:1979 11. Rose: William Kimber: 1980. 12. Karenza: William Kimber: 1980 (no 1 revised) 13. One Summer at St Merry: 1980 (no2 revised) 14. Frances: William Kimber:"
"Canfield. Gibbs graduated from Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York. As a senior at Vassar College, Gibbs was the editor of ""Vassar Poetry, 1930"", along with three other seniors who made selections from poems submitted by Vassar students. In 1932, Gibbs went on to publish her first novel, ""Murder Between Drinks"", a mystery fiction. Gibbs published again in 1944, along with five other writers, in ""New York Murders"". According to a review that appeared in The New Yorker on November 4, 1944: Her short story ""The Test"" was first published in The New Yorker, issue dated June 15, 1940. The"
"the Newbery Medal, the first children's book award, in 1922. The Caldecott Medal for illustration followed in 1938. The first book by Laura Ingalls Wilder about her life on the American frontier, ""Little House in the Big Woods"" appeared in 1932. In 1937 Dr. Seuss published his first book, entitled, ""And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street"". The young adult book market developed during this period, thanks to sports books by popular writer John R. Tunis', the novel ""Seventeenth Summer"" by Maureen Daly, and the ""Sue Barton"" nurse book series by Helen Dore Boylston. The already vigorous"
"West. Sibell also authored many articles and several books about the history of the disappearing ghost towns. She became a nationally recognized author with the publication of ""Stampede to Timberline"", ""The Bonanza Trail"", ""Montana Pay Dirt"", and ""Timberline Tailings"", which she both authored and illustrated. ""Stampede to Timberline"" went through fourteen printings, becoming a definitive guidebook for ghost town enthusiasts, although many residents objected to having their towns depicted as such. Starting in 1928, Sibell designed sets and costumes for many theater productions on campus, including the operettas written and directed by her future husband, English professor Francis Wolle. In"