Title:
At home : a short history of private life / Bill Bryson.
Author:
Bryson, Bill.
Publication Information:
New York : Doubleday, c2010.
Call Number:
GT165.5 .B79 2010
Abstract:
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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Edition:
1st U.S. ed.
ISBN:
9780767919388
Physical Description:
497 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
General Note:
Floor plans on end papers.
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.
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