Cold Comfort Farm

Fun! I felt like a stingy old lady at the beginning, not really enjoying the sense of humour, but after the first day or two at the farm I was good. An excellent follow-up to Wuthering Heights, if your experience of it was, as mine, only three-star (maybe two and a half).

Also, I read the 2006 Penguin Classics edition, and there are these double- and triple-asterisks in certain parts of the text, but nothing to tell me what they mean! No footnotes, no endnotes, nothing in the Introduction (I think), nothing in the Note on the Text, nothing even on the copyright page! They seem to mark passages of especially florid parodies of the romantic rural style. Did a page explaining this fall out? I will probably never know.