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At home a short history of private life

Bryson, Bill. (Author).

Summary: Bryson takes readers on a tour of his house, a rural English parsonage, showing how each room has figured in the evolution of private life.

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  • ISBN: 9780385533591 (electronic bk. : Adobe EPUB)
  • ISBN: 0385533594 (electronic bk. : Adobe EPUB)
  • Physical Description: electronic resource
    remote
    1 online resource (497 p.) : ill.
  • Publisher: New York : Doubleday, c2010.

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General Note:
Description based on print version record.
Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. [455]-475) and index.
Formatted Contents Note: 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.
Subject: Social evolution
Social history
Dwellings History
Rooms History
Dwellings Psychological aspects
Dwellings Environmental aspects
Rooms Psychological aspects
Rooms Environmental aspects
Europe Social life and customs
Genre: Electronic books.

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Bill Bryson’s bestselling books include A Walk in the Woods (now a major motion picture starring Robert Redford and Nick Nolte), Notes from a Small Island, I’m a Stranger Here Myself, In a Sunburned Country, A Short History of Nearly Everything (which earned him the 2004 Aventis Prize), The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid, At Home, and One Summer. He lives in England with his wife.

www.billbrysonbooks.com

Bill Bryson's bestselling books include A Walk in the Woods (now a major motion picture starring Robert Redford and Nick Nolte), Notes from a Small Island, I'm a Stranger Here Myself, In a Sunburned Country, A Short History of Nearly Everything (which earned him the 2004 Aventis Prize), The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid, At Home, and One Summer. He lives in England with his wife.

www.billbrysonbooks.com


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