At home : a short history of private life
(2010)
By:
Bryson, Bill
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
643.1/BRYSON,B
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Doubleday, [2010]
©2010
©2010
EDITION
First U.S. edition
DESCRIPTION
497 pages ; 25 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780767919388, 0767919386
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
The year -- The setting -- The hall -- The kitchen -- The scullery and the larder -- The fusebox -- The drawing room -- The dining room -- The cellar -- The passage -- The study -- The garden -- The plum room -- The stairs -- The bedroom -- The bathroom -- The dressing room -- The nursery -- The attic
Bryson (A Short History of Nearly Everything) takes readers on a tour of his house, a rural English parsonage, showing how each room has figured in the evolution of private life