An edition of At Home (2010)

At Home

A Short History of Private Life

First Anchor Books Edition (1)
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An edition of At Home (2010)

At Home

A Short History of Private Life

First Anchor Books Edition (1)
  • 3.96 ·
  • 27 Ratings
  • 76 Want to read
  • 2 Currently reading
  • 31 Have read

With his signature wit, charm, and seemingly limitless knowledge, Bill Bryson takes us on a room-by-room tour through his own house, using each room as a jumping off point into the vast history of the domestic artifacts we take for granted. As he takes us through the history of our modern comforts, Bryson demonstrates that whatever happens in the world eventually ends up in our home, in the paint, the pipes, the pillows, and every item of furniture. Bryson has one of the liveliest, most inquisitive minds on the planet, and his sheer prose fluency makes At Home one of the most entertaining books ever written about private life.
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Publisher
Anchor Books
Language
English
Pages
581

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Cover of: Een huis vol
Een huis vol: Een kleine geschiedenis van het dagelijks leven
2020, Olympus
Paperback in Dutch - Tiende druk
Cover of: At home
At home: a short history of private life
2016, Black Swan
Paperback in English - Black Swan edition reissued (4)
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Cover of: At Home
At Home: A Short History of Private Life
2011-10, Anchor Books
Paperback in English - First Anchor Books Edition (1)
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At home: A Short History of Private Life
2011, Black Swan
Paperback in English - Black Swan edition (5)
Cover of: At Home
At Home: A short history of private life
2011, Black Swan
paperback in English - Black Swan edition (1)
Cover of: At Home
At Home
2010, Doubleday
paperback in English
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At Home: A Short History of Private Life
2010, Doubleday
hardcover in English - printing (1)
Cover of: At home
At home: a short history of private life
2010, Doubleday
Hardcover in English - First United States Edition (1)
Cover of: At Home
At Home: A Short History of Private Life
2010, Doubleday
Hardcover in English - 1st U.S. ed.

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New York

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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (pages 535-560) and index.

Copyright Date
2010

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
643.1
Library of Congress
GT165.5 .B79 2011

The Physical Object

Format
Paperback
Pagination
577, [4] pages :
Number of pages
581

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL26299281M
Internet Archive
athomeshorthisto00bill
ISBN 10
0767919394
ISBN 13
9780767919395
LCCN
2010004008
OCLC/WorldCat
697261596, 865292370, 1267611583
Alibris ID
9780767919395
Google
WqxvlLwc2v8C
Goodreads
43574547

Work Description

At Home: A Short History of Private Life is a history of domestic life written by Bill Bryson. It was published in May 2010. The book covers topics of the commerce, architecture, technology and geography that have shaped homes into what they are today, told through a series of "tours" through Bryson's Norfolk rectory that quickly digress into the history of each particular room.

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Some time after my wife and I moved into a former Church of England rectory in a village of tranquil anonymity in Norfolk, in the easternmost part of England, I had occasion to go up into the attic to look for the source of a slow but mysterious drip.
added by Lisa. "first sentence"

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