作者: Stella Gibbons

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Stella Dorothea Gibbons, 1902 in London geboren, besuchte die North London Collegiate School und studierte Journalismus am University College London. Sie arbeitete für diverse Zeitungen und Zeitschriften, bevor sie sich ganz dem Schreiben von Büchern widmete. Ihre erste Veröffentlichung im Jahr 1930 war eine Gedichtsammlung, “The Mountain Beast”. Zwei Jahre später erschien ihr erster und zugleich bekanntester Roman “Cold Comfort Farm”. Es folgten weitere Bücher, unter anderem die charmante Aschenputtelgeschichte “Der Sommernachtsball”. 1933 heiratete Gibbons den Sänger und Schauspieler Alan Webb, mit dem sie eine Tochter bekam. Stella Gibbons starb 1989 in London.




34 电子书 Stella Gibbons

Stella Gibbons: Cold Comfort Farm
In Gibbons’s classic tale, a resourceful young heroine finds herself in the gloomy, overwrought world of a Hardy or Bronte novel and proceeds to organize everyone out of their romantic tragedies into …
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Stella Gibbons: Cold Comfort Farm
When a well-educated young socialite in 1930s England is left orphaned and unable to support herself at age twenty-two, she moves in with her eccentric relatives on their farm. …
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Stella Gibbons: Nightingale Wood
‘Gibbons is superb on middle class life’ SAM JORDISON, GUARDIAN ‘A sharp-edged romantic comedy, we have a chance to see what we’ve been missing’ DAILY MAIL ‘What luxury to stumble upon this quirky bo …
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Stella Gibbons: Yellow Houses
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 str …
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Stella Gibbons: Cold Comfort Farm
One of the BBC’s ‘100 Novels That Shaped Our World”Brilliant … very probably the funniest book ever written’ Sunday Times When sensible, sophisticated Flora Poste is orphaned at nineteen, she deci …
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Stella Gibbons: Conference at Cold Comfort Farm
Robert Poste’s child is back at Cold Comfort Farm. But all is not well. Flora finds the farm transformed into a twee haven filled with Toby jugs and peasant pottery, and rooms labelled ‘Quiete Retrea …
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Stella Gibbons: Westwood
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY LYNNE TRUSS’Stella Gibbons is the Jane Austen of the twentieth century’ The Times Set in wartime London, Westwood tells the story of Margaret Steggles, a plain bookish girl wh …
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Stella Gibbons: Starlight
Gladys and Annie Barnes are impoverished sisters who have seen better times. They live in a modest cottage in the backstreets of Highate with Mr Fisher, a mild but eccentric old man living secretivel …
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Stella Gibbons: Bachelor
Brother and sister, Constance and Kenneth Fielding live in calm respectability, just out of reach of London and the Blitz. But when a series of uninvited guests converge upon them from a Balkan exile …
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Stella Gibbons: Matchmaker
Uprooted from war-torn London, Alda Lucie-Brown and her three daughters start a new life at Pine Cottage in rural Sussex. Unsuited to a quiet life, Alda attempts to orchestrate – with varying degrees …
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Stella Gibbons: My American
** AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4 BOOK AT BEDTIME **’Stella Gibbons’s gift is very special’ Daily Express Amy, a neglected motherless child in 1920s London meets Robert, a wealthy American boy. It’s an enco …
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Stella Gibbons: Ticky
‘He wanted very large sums of money, the friendship of titled and distinguished men, the love of beautiful women who were also famous. He was twenty, and his dreams were titanic.’Ticky’s father has b …
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Stella Gibbons: Here Be Dragons
When Nell Sely moves from sleepy Dorset to Hampstead she leaves behind a childhood of dull teas and oppressive rules for the freedom of the big city. Naive and only nineteen, she becomes embroiled wi …
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Stella Gibbons: Bassett
The Tower Guesthouse lies nestled between the beech woods of Buckinghamshire. It is run by the unlikely partnership of balmy Miss Padsoe and young, cockney Miss Baker – divided by class and age, they …
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Stella Gibbons: White Sand and Grey Sand
On the dunes west of Bruges, two-year-old Ydette is found wrapped in a blanket and taken back to live in a small grocer’s shop. Opposite the shop live the wealthy van Roeslaere family and their son, …
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Stella Gibbons: Rich House
Set on the eve of World War II in a resort on the east coast of England, The Rich House follows the love affairs of six young people and their intertwined adorations. Encircling their lives is Archib …
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Stella Gibbons: Charmers
Thrown out of her long-established office job, Miss Christine Smith takes up a new role as housekeeper for a group of middle-aged artists. Charmed by a previous mystical experience, her spirituality …
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Stella Gibbons: Christmas at Cold Comfort Farm
A festive treat from a treasured comic writer. It’s Christmas-time at Cold Comfort Farm and it’s the worst sort of family gathering…WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITHThe title story tel …
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Stella Gibbons: Pure Juliet
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 p …
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Stella Gibbons: The Swiss Summer
Nevertheless, within three weeks from that very day she was seated in the train; leaving London, leaving her life in England with every detail arranged and every foreseeable mishap foreseen and guard …
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Stella Gibbons: A Pink Front Door
James’s gesture with the key was cautious because he was not always sure of who or what he would find in the hall when he got in. It might be someone in tears, or someone asleep while they filled up …
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Stella Gibbons: The Weather at Tregulla
Terence danced, alas, only fairly well. She tried to hide the fact from herself. Una Beaumont, nineteen years old and desperate to leave the small Cornish town of Tregulla to try her luck on the Lond …
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Stella Gibbons: The Snow-Woman
I suppose I was lonelier than I knew. It’s the 1960s, and Maude Barrington, now in her seventies, has kept life firmly at bay since the deaths of her three brothers in World War I. But when an unexpe …
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Stella Gibbons: The Woods in Winter
…for the first time in her life, she was living as she had always unknowingly wanted to live: in freedom and solitude, with an animal for close companion. Her new life had acted upon her like a str …
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Stella Gibbons: Enbury Heath
‘Don’t show proper feelin’, does it, not turnin’ up for ‘is dad’s funeral?’Siblings Sophia, Harry and Francis have lost both their parents in the last six months. Attending the funeral for their estr …
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Stella Gibbons: Flora Poste y los artistas
Dieciséis años después de haber puesto el pie por última vez en el pintoresco pueblo de Howling, Flora Poste, la díscola y encantadora protagonista de La hija de Robert Poste, vuelve a la carga para …
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Stella Gibbons: Westwood
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 pasa …
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Stella Gibbons: La segunda vida de Viola Wither
Viola Wither es una chica encantadora y no muy avispada que se casa con un hombre con posibles al que no ama realmente. Cuando su marido fallece, Viola se queda en la más absoluta miseria, por lo que …
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Stella Gibbons: Navidades en Cold Comfort Farm
Stella Gibbons ya nos fascinó con las aventuras de ‘La hija de Robert Poste’ y con esa moderna fábula londinense de la Cenicienta titulada ‘Westwood’. Ahora, en lo que se ha convertido en una de las …
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Stella Gibbons: Bassett
La casa de huéspedes de La Torre se encuentra ubicada en un frondoso bosque de hayas en pleno Buckinghamshire. La regentan dos extraordinarias mujeres de muy marcada personalidad: la balsámica y llor …
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Stella Gibbons: La hija de Robert Poste
  Ganadora del Prix Femina-Vie Hereuse en 1933, y mítico long-seller, La hija de Robert Poste está considerada la novela cómica más perfecta de la literatura inglesa del XX. Brutalmente divertida, do …
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Stella Gibbons: Nightingale Wood
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Stella Gibbons: Teatime mit Kuh
Flora Poste wurde in jeder Kunst und Fertigkeit unterrichtet, nur nicht in der, für den eigenen Lebensunterhalt zu sorgen. Da ihre Eltern ihr weit weniger vermacht haben als erwartet, ist sie gezwung …
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