Miss Buncle's Book

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In her book, Disturber of the Peace, she changes the name of the town and people, but it's pretty transparent stuff: Silverstream becomes Copperfield, Major Waterfoot is the name given to the real Colonel Weatherhead, Dr. I knew the book was due at the library in four days and determined that 75 pages per day would accomplish it. E. Stevenson' page as there is on my copy of Miss Buncle Married where Miss Buncle's Book is referenced). Because this book is hard to put down--and, despite what Miss Buncle may say, it is truly, truly imaginative.

But some people in the village are up in arms because they don’t like the way they are characterized. Colonel Weatherhead reads the book and, vaguely inspired by Major Waterfoot's dashing and romantic proposal to Mrs.Stevenson's father, David Alan Stevenson, a lighthouse engineer who built twenty six lighthouses in and around Scotland, was a first cousin to Robert Louis Stevenson. Which would be cool enough on its own, but it buries all of that under an entertaining style and pitch-perfect characterization that held me firmly in its grasp from beginning to end. Her money is drying up—as it is for many of her neighbors—and she has written a novel to rescue herself from poverty. But what really turns Miss Buncle's world around is this: what happens to the characters in her book starts happening to their real-life counterparts.

Stevenson's novels were best-sellers, with more than seven million copies printed and translations in multiple languages. Die Kritiker überschlagen sich, doch die Sache hat einen Haken: Miss Buncles Schilderungen sind so authentisch, dass sich die Bewohner von Silverstream prompt wiedererkennen, und nicht alle sind glücklich. It's the literary equivalent of a nice cup of tea and a sit down - just what you want after a hard day at work. She is already living in Reduced Circumstances, with just her faithful former nanny to help her out, but when her dividends come in at a much reduced rate she needs to find another source of income.And, so, she wrote a book under the pseudonym “John Smith”, changed the village and villagers' names and sent the book to the publisher. Barbara Buncle has seen her income diminish to the extent that she can hardly survive without doing something drastic to increase her income or decrease her expenditure. what would their reaction be and what things would you encourage them to do, would they run off and get married? Manquant d'imagination, elle s'inspire de son village et de ses habitants, dressant d'eux des portraits sans concession.