作者：BillBryson
出版社：Doubleday
副标题：AShortHistoryofPrivateLife
出版年：2010-5-27
页数：544
定价：GBP20.00
装帧：Hardcover
ISBN：9780385608275
内容简介
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“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 hygiene; the bedroom, sex, death, and sleep; the kitchen, nutrition and the spice trade; and so on, as Bryson shows how each has figured 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.
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作者简介
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William McGuire “Bill” Bryson, OBE, FRS was born in Des Moines, Iowa, in 1951. He settled in England in 1977, and worked in journalism until he became a full time writer. He lived for many years with his English wife and four children in North Yorkshire. He and his family then moved to New Hampshire in America for a few years, but they have now returned to live in the UK.
In The Lost Continent, Bill Bryson’s hilarious first travel book, he chronicled a trip in his mother’s Chevy around small town America. It was followed by Neither Here Nor There, an account of his first trip around Europe. Other travel books include the massive bestseller Notes From a Small Island, which won the 2003 World Book Day National Poll to find the book which best represented modern England, followed by A Walk in the Woods (in which Stephen Katz, his travel companion from Neither Here Nor There, made a welcome reappearance), Notes From a Big Country and Down Under.
Bill Bryson has also written several highly praised books on the English language, including Mother Tongue and Made in America. In his last book, he turned his attention to science. A Short History of Nearly Everything was lauded with critical acclaim, and became a huge bestseller. It was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize, before going on to win the Aventis Prize for Science Books and the Descartes Science Communication Prize. His next book, The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid, is a memoir of growing up in 1950s America, featuring another appearance from his old friend Stephen Katz. October 8 sees the publication of A Really Short History of Nearly Everything.
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果然读了半个月。。这本怎么说呢，有的章节读的很有乐趣，比如贝尔发明电话那章，不知道是不是跟他原来是我们学校教授有关系。但是这本书总体来说取材和开篇的承诺跟后面的具体内容很分裂，不觉得是真的讲明白了现代房子/家的进化由来，有些历史插的有点随便，篇幅比例掌握的不好。乐趣也是不同章节程度不衡。Bill Bryson的优点在这本里不明显，弱点被放大了，扯的太杂。
我知道这才是生活真正的意义，可是读起来怎么不觉得有趣呢
特搞笑一本书
看了好久好久好久啊~~真喜欢Bill老爷子的文风
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