Bryson, Bill.

At home : a short history of private life / Bill Bryson. - 1st U.S. ed. - New York : Doubleday, c2010. - 497 p. ; 25 cm.

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 (A Short History of Nearly Everything) 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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Dwellings--Psychological aspects.
Dwellings--Environmental aspects.
Rooms--Psychological aspects.
Rooms--Environmental aspects.

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