I stayed up until 1 am reading this one because I couldn't stand to put it down, not because it was so gripping but because it was so irresistibly funny and I had to know what was going to become of all of them. The Major, for instance, has no introspection, can hardly follow a conversation, and thinks in cliches.

Su estilo narrativo es fluido, nada pretencioso y alberga en su lenguaje algo maravilloso que resulta adictivo. But some people in the village are up in arms because they don’t like the way they are characterized. Stevenson's novels were best-sellers, with more than seven million copies printed and translations in multiple languages. E. Stevenson proves that one little book can be the source of all kinds of trouble when residents of a small English village start to see themselves through someone else's eyes.Some of Miss Buncle's word association that I so liked and that was probably what made people start paying attention.

For example, in the book Major Waterfoot might propose marriage to a neighbor he secretly is fond of.The narration follows one person after another, dipping in their thoughts and witnessing their actions. For instance, it's never totally clear whether Barbara doesn't realize her two "spinster" neighbors are lesbians, or doesn't realize that other people will disapprove of them when she accidentally outs them.

partiell leicht berieben, der Kopfschnitt auch mit winzigem Fleckchen, ansonsten guter Erhaltungszustand. Der Umschlag dezent randberieben, die Einbandkanten mit einzelnen kleinen Druckstellen, die Schnitte und einzelne Seitenränder ebd.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. But then it slowed down and tended to be same-old same-old and by the end I was sorta glad it was over and done with.