Summary
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. Full description
- 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.