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At home [electronic resource] : a short history of private life / Bill Bryson.

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.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780385533591 (electronic bk. : Adobe EPUB)
  • ISBN: 0385533594 (electronic bk. : Adobe EPUB)
  • Physical Description: 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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