Stella Gibbons Society of Literature in 1950. Her style has been praised by critics for its charm, barbed humour and descriptive skill, and has led to comparison with Jane Austen. The impact of "Cold Comfort Farm" dominated her career, and she grew to resent her identification with the book to the exclusion of the rest of her output. Widely regarded as a one-work novelist, she and her works have not been accepted into the canon of English literature—partly, other writers have suggested, because of her detachment from the literary world and her tendency to mock it. The Gibbons family originated in Ireland.
Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle book". (Whether they do indeed die is disputed by critics, as the author says "if our time-racked flat-lying couple ever intended to die".) Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle is a novel by Vladimir Nabokov published in 1969. "Ada" began to materialize in 1959, when Nabokov was flirting with two projects, "The Texture of Time" and "Letters from Terra". In 1965, he began to see a link between the two ideas, finally composing a unified novel from February 1966 to October 1968. The published cumulation would become his longest work. "Ada" was initially given