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At Home: A Short History of Private Life by Bill Bryson: Used Audiobook
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Publication Date
- 2010-10-05
- ISBN
- 9780739315262
- Publication Year
- 2010
- Format
- Compact Disc
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- At Home : a Short History of Private Life
- Publisher
- Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
- Genre
- House & Home, Architecture, History
- Topic
- Design & Construction, Civilization, Buildings / Residential, General
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From one of the most beloved authors of our time-more than six million copies of his books have been sold in this country alone-a fascinating excursion into the history behind the place we call home. "Houses aren't refuges from history. They are where history ends up." Bill Bryson and his family live in a Victorian parsonage in a part of England where nothing of any great significance has happened since the Romans decamped. Yet one day, he began to consider how very little he knew about the ordinary things of life as he found it in that comfortable home. To remedy this, he formed the idea of journeying about his house from room to room to "write a history of the world without leaving home." The bathroom provides the occasion for a history of hygie≠the bedroom, sex, death, and sleep; the kitchen, nutrition and the spice â„¢ and so on, as Bryson shows how each has figÂured in the evolution of private life. Whatever happens in the world, he demonstrates, ends up in our house, in the paint and the pipes and the pillows and every item of furniture. Bill Bryson has one of the liveliest, most inquisitive minds on the planet, and he is a master at turning the seemingly isolated or mundane fact into an occasion for the most diverting exposiÂtion imaginable. His wit and sheer prose fluency make At Home one of the most entertaining books ever written about private life. From the Hardcover edition.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0739315269
ISBN-13
9780739315262
eBay Product ID (ePID)
109011085
Product Key Features
Book Title
At Home : a Short History of Private Life
Format
Compact Disc
Language
English
Topic
Design & Construction, Civilization, Buildings / Residential, General
Publication Year
2010
Genre
House & Home, Architecture, History
Dimensions
Item Length
5.9in
Item Height
1.6in
Item Width
5.1in
Item Weight
13.5 Oz
Additional Product Features
Number of Volumes
13 Vols.
Edition Description
Unabridged Edition
Reviews
. . . whatever happens in the worldwhatever is discovered or created or bitterly fought overeventually ends up, in one way or another, in your house. Wars, famines, the Industrial Revolution, the Enlightenmentthey are all there in your sofas and chests of drawers, tucked into the folds of your curtains, in the downy softness of your pillows, in the paint on your walls and the water in your pipes. So the history of household life isn't just a history of beds and sofas and kitchen stoves, as I had vaguely supposed it would be, but of scurvy and guano and the Eiffel Tower and bedbugs and body-snatching and just about everything else that has ever happened.Houses aren't refuges from history. They are where history ends up., PRAISE FOR AT HOME: A Short History of Private Life : "...a delightful stroll through the history of domestic life. Now living in a 19th-century church rectory in Norfolk, England, the author decided to learn about the ordinary things of life by exploring each room in his house.... In a sense, Bryson's book is a history of "getting comfortable slowly".... Informative, readable and great fun ."- Kirkus Reviews (starred) " [D]elightful .... Considering our homes means a dash through history, politics, science, sex, and dozens of other fields. If this book doesn't supply you with five years' worth of dinner conversation, you're not paying attention ."- PEOPLE magazine " Fascinating .... Join this ambiable tour guide as he wanders through his house, a former rectory built in 1851 in a tranquil English village.... [It] takes a very particular kind of thoughtfulness , as well as a bold temperament, to stuff all this research into a mattress that's supportive enough to loll about on while pondering the real subject of this book -- the development of the modern world.... Bryson is fascinated by everything, and his curiosity is infectious ...[ his] enthusiasm brightens any dull corner .... You'll be given a delightful smattering of information about everything but...the kitchen sink."- Dominique Browning, The New York Times Book Review, PRAISE FORAT HOME: A Short History of Private Life: "...adelightfulstroll through the history of domestic life. Now living in a 19th-century church rectory in Norfolk, England, the author decided to learn about the ordinary things of life by exploring each room in his house.... In a sense, Bryson's book is a history of "getting comfortable slowly"....Informative, readable and great fun."-Kirkus Reviews(starred) "[D]elightful.... Considering our homes means a dash through history, politics, science, sex, and dozens of other fields. If this book doesn't supply you with five years' worth of dinner conversation, you're not paying attention."-PEOPLE magazine "Fascinating....Join this ambiable tour guideas he wanders through his house, a former rectory built in 1851 in a tranquil English village.... [It] takesa very particular kind of thoughtfulness, as well as a bold temperament, to stuff all this research into a mattress that's supportive enough to loll about on while pondering the real subject of this book -- the development of the modern world.... Bryson is fascinated by everything, and his curiosity is infectious...[his] enthusiasm brightens any dull corner.... You'll be given adelightfulsmattering of information about everything but...the kitchen sink."- Dominique Browning,The New York Times Book Review From the Hardcover edition., PRAISE FORAT HOME: A Short History of Private Life: "...a delightful stroll through the history of domestic life. Now living in a 19th-century church rectory in Norfolk, England, the author decided to learn about the ordinary things of life by exploring each room in his house.... In a sense, Bryson's book is a history of "getting comfortable slowly".... Informative, readable and great fun."-Kirkus Reviews(starred) From the Hardcover edition., PRAISE FOR AT HOME: A Short History of Private Life : "...a delightful stroll through the history of domestic life. Now living in a 19th-century church rectory in Norfolk, England, the author decided to learn about the ordinary things of life by exploring each room in his house.... In a sense, Bryson’s book is a history of “getting comfortable slowly".... Informative, readable and great fun ."- Kirkus Reviews (starred) " [D]elightful .... Considering our homes means a dash through history, politics, science, sex, and dozens of other fields. If this book doesn't supply you with five years' worth of dinner conversation, you're not paying attention ."- PEOPLE magazine " Fascinating .... Join this ambiable tour guide as he wanders through his house, a former rectory built in 1851 in a tranquil English village.... [It] takes a very particular kind of thoughtfulness , as well as a bold temperament, to stuff all this research into a mattress that's supportive enough to loll about on while pondering the real subject of this book -- the development of the modern world.... Bryson is fascinated by everything, and his curiosity is infectious ...[ his] enthusiasm brightens any dull corner .... You'll be given a delightful smattering of information about everything but...the kitchen sink."- Dominique Browning, The New York Times Book Review From the Hardcover edition.
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Dewey Decimal
643/.1
Dewey Edition
22
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