At home : a short history of private life /

At home : a short history of private life /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Bryson, Bill.
Edition:	1st U.S. ed.
Imprint:	New York : Doubleday, c2010.
Description:	497 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Dwellings -- Psychological aspects. Dwellings -- Environmental aspects. Rooms -- Psychological aspects. Rooms -- Environmental aspects. Dwellings -- Environmental aspects. Dwellings -- Psychological aspects.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8146549

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ISBN:	9780767919388 0767919386
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	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.

Table of 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.