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At home : a short history of private life / Bill Bryson.

By: Bryson, Bill.
Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Doubleday, c2010Edition: 1st U.S. ed.General Notes: Floor plans on end papers.Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. [455]-475) and index.Description: 497 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.ISBN: 9780767919388; 0767919386.Subject(s): Social evolution | Social history | Dwellings -- History | Rooms -- History | Dwellings -- Psychological aspects | Dwellings -- Environmental aspects | Rooms -- Psychological aspects | Rooms -- Environmental aspects | Europe -- Social life and customsDDC classification: 643/.1 | 646.7009
Contents:
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.
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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Two Weeks Davenport Library Circulating Collection Print-Circulating 646.7009 B848 2010 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 34284003714482

Floor plans on end papers.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [455]-475) and index.

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 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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