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A Short History of Private Life

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An edition of At Home (2010)

At Home

A Short History of Private Life

printing (1)
  • 3.97 ·
  • 29 Ratings
  • 81 Want to read
  • 2 Currently reading
  • 33 Have read

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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Publisher
Doubleday
Language
English
Pages
536

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2010, Doubleday
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2010, Doubleday
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London

Edition Notes

Copyright Date
2010

Classifications

Library of Congress
GT165.5 .B79 2010c, HN8 .B797 2010

The Physical Object

Format
hardcover
Pagination
536p.
Number of pages
536

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL28152327M
ISBN 10
0385608276
ISBN 13
9780385608275
LCCN
2011378915
OCLC/WorldCat
993874249, 501273601
Goodreads
60830412

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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.
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