Barbara Buncle, the bespectacled heroine of D.E. Stevenson's 1934 novel "Miss Buncle's Book," lives a gray life as a spinster in a provincial English town. But she can write. And Miss Buncle thus is well-positioned to observe and chronicle the shallowness of her catty neighbors and, in what passed...
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune at 06:48PM on September 22, 2015