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Author Bryson, Bill.

Title At home : a short history of private life / Bill Bryson
Edition First Anchor Books edition
Published New York : Anchor Books, 2011
©2010

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Description 577 pages, 4 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
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 changes in private life
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [535]-560) and index
Subject Rooms -- Environmental aspects.
Rooms -- Psychological aspects.
Dwellings -- Environmental aspects.
Dwellings -- Psychological aspects.
Genre/Form Nonfiction.
LC no. 2010004008
ISBN 9780767919395 paperback
0767919394 paperback