At home
Subtitle: a short history of private life
By: Bill Bryson.
Edition: First United States Edition (1)
Publisher: Doubleday
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 497
ISBN-13: 9780767919388
Copyright date: 2010
Subjects: Dwellings -- Psychological aspects; Dwellings -- Environmental aspects; Rooms -- Psychological aspects; Rooms -- Environmental aspects
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The year; title: The setting; title: The hall; title: The kitchen; title: The scullery and the larder; title: The fusebox; title: The drawing room; title: The dining room; title: The cellar; title: The passage; title: The study; title: The garden; title: The plum room; title: The stairs; title: The bedroom; title: The bathroom; title: The dressing room; title: The nursery; title: The attic