At Home by Bill Bryson5/26/2023 ![]() ![]() This, along with other Victorian “architectural bewilderments” of his home, caused Bryson to consider how little he really knew about the everyday things in his life. In his introduction, Bryson describes how his search for the source of a mysterious drip led to his discovery of a previously unnoticed, almost inaccessible door leading from the attic to the roof. Although the book ventures as far back as the Stone Age, the main focus of Bryson’s study is the 19th century, a time during which, he maintains, “the modern world was really born.” (Bryson is an American anglophile who has become - in the way of Henry James and Edward Gorey - almost more English than the English). ![]() Similarly chastened, perhaps, by the experience of writing 2004’s ambitious and immensely popular A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson trades quarks and protons for fish knives and salt cellars in his new book, attempting to do for the domestic realm what he once tried to do for the universe - explain it.īryson’s point of departure in At Home: A Short History of Private Life is the 150-year-old rectory where he lives with his family in the English countryside. ![]() Dorothy contritely replies: “If I ever go looking for my heart’s desire again, I won’t look any further than my own backyard.” ![]() At the end of the movie version of The Wizard of Oz, Glinda asks Dorothy what her fantastic journey has taught her. ![]()
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