At Home : : a Short History of Private Life

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"Originally published in Great Britain by Doubleday"--T.p. verso.
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 (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.

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Who writes about each room in a house? submitted by tbbrown76 on July 2, 2014, 8:34pm Bill Bryson does. And he does it well.

fascinating submitted by amym on August 8, 2014, 10:31am Bill Bryson is one of my favorite authors. He can make anything interesting and I love his understated sense of humor. It was especially interesting to me when he talks about how poor lighting was before electricity and how cold houses would get in the winter. As always,he includes lots of funny anecdotes. Highly recommended.