01725cam a2200385 4500 69420954 TxAuBib 20101102120000.0 100129s2010||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2010004008 9780767919388 hc $28.95 0767919386 hc $28.95 (OCoLC)503596086 DLC DLC UPZ BTCTA YDXCP YVO WIM BKL C#P JZ6 JRS LMR CDX NSB TxAuBib Bryson, Bill. At home : a short history of private life / Bill Bryson. 1st U.S. ed. (hardcover 0 white spine.) New York : Doubleday, 2010. 497 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. 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. 20101102. Rooms Psychological aspects. Rooms History. Rooms Environmental aspects. Social evolution. Social history. Dwellings History. Dwellings Psychological aspects. Dwellings Environmental aspects. Europe Social life and customs. TXMLR