At Home - A Short History of Private Life by Bill Bryson (Bog)

Bill Bryson describes himself as a reluctant traveller, but even when he stays safely in his own study at home, he can't contain his curiosity about the world around him. This book is his quest to understand everything that has happened from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization. Forlag: Black Swan Udgivelsesår: 2004 Sider: 686 Sprog: Engelsk

Christina Hardyment conducted a fascinating quest into the history of housekeeping through the well-preserved properties of Britain's National Trust, among them Petworth, Uppark, Shugborough, and Lanhydrock. To reconstruct the ingenious methods used by earlier generations to make a house a home and to keep themselves warm and well-fed, she squirmed through drains, poked around sculleries and cellars, and clambered into icehouses and up chimneys. The result of her explorations is an informative, amusing text that recounts not only the history of the kitchen, the bathroom, and the laundry, but also investigates bakehouses and breweries, dairies and dovecotes, the lamp room and the larder. Accompanying Hardyment's descriptions of what she found in great mansions, humble cottages, medieval castles and Victorian townhouses are archival documents and accounts and a wealth of color photographs,

The World as a Stage In true Bryson style, in a study that manages to be witty, amusing and anecdotal as well as informative, on one of the greatest British dramatists that has ever lived, he recounts his travels during which he discusses Shakespeare and his life with expert academics, actors, directors and theatre managers, while following the Stratford route. Forfatter: Bill Bryson Forlag: HarperCollins UK Udgivelsesår: 2007 Sider: 212 Sprog: Engelsk

Hvordan: - mænd og kvinder langt om længe har lært at føre interessante samtaler. Visse mennesker er blevet immune over for ensomhed. Mennesket har gjort sig fri af frygt ved at finde noget nyt at frygte. Nysgerrighed er blevet nøglen til frihed. Mænds trang til kvinder, og andre mænd, er blevet ændret med tiden. Respekt er blevet mere attraktiv end magt. Hvordan kunsten at flygte fra problemer er blevet udviklet, men ikke kunsten at vide, hvordan man skal flygte. Rejsende er blevet den største nation i verden, og hvordan de har lært at se mere end det, de søger efter. Hvordan selv astrologer modsætter sig deres skæbne. Hvorfor: - der er sket større fremskridt inden for madlavning end inden for sexlivet. Det er blevet stadig sværere at tilintetgøre sine fjender. Fædre og deres børn ændrer opfattelse af, hvad de ønsker af hinanden. Hvorfor venskabet mellem mænd og kvinder har været så skr

Ruby Lennox was conceived grudgingly by Bunty and born while her father, George, was in the Dog and Hare in Doncaster telling a woman in an emerald dress and a D-cup that he wasn't married. Bunty had never wanted to marry George, but here she was, stuck in a flat above the pet shop in an ancient street beneath York Minster. Forlag: Bantam Dell Publishing Group Udgivelsesår: 1996 Sider: 65 Sprog: Engelsk

Life in the Great London Houses Forlag: Vintage Udgivelsesår: 1989 Sider: 352 Sprog: Engelsk

Præstesønnen Jack Boughton er familiens sorte får, en lunefuld alkoholiker, der ikke kan holde på noget job og altid er i modsætning til sine omgivelser, men som trods alt er både godt begavet og elskelig. Nu vender han efter tyve år hjem til sin fødeby Gilead for at slutte fred med sin døende far og en fortid fyldt med smerte Forfatter: Marilynne Robinson Forlag: Virago Udgivelsesår: 2009 Sider: 338 Sprog: Engelsk

The acclaimed author of On Royalty explores the mysteries of English identity in this “witty, argumentative book bursting with good things” (The Daily Telegraph). A Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller Being English used to be easy. As the dominant culture in a country that dominated an empire that dominated the world, they had little need to examine themselves and ask who they were. But something has happened over the past century. A new self-confidence seems to have taken hold in Wales and Scotland, while others try to forge a new relationship with Europe. What exactly sets the English apart from their British compatriots? Is there such a thing as an English race? Renowned journalist and bestselling author Jeremy Paxman traces the invention of Englishness to its current crisis and concludes that, for all their characteristic gloom about themselves, the English may have developed a form of n