At Home: A Short History of Private Life Free Audiobook Download by Bill Bryson

The United States of America has a history that is sometimes so long and consuming that it becomes difficult for Americans to remember the stories. Bill Bryson's book At Home: A Short History of Private Life tells the story of how two hundred years ago, the social norms for people in America started changing very quickly.

Private life is a complex concept, one that has been developing in the last two centuries. Bill Bryson shares his personal insights and anecdotes on how people have developed their own personal lives as they've moved from living in small colonies to large cities and finally to private residence. Bryson touches on how technologies including phones, cameras, televisions, and computers have created a need for privacy that before was virtually unheard of.

Bill Bryson has written a short and accessible book on the history of privacy. He discusses the ways in which his own privacy has been invaded such as through social media and CCTV cameras. Bryson also deals with how our private lives have changed throughout history.

Bill Bryson, a British author and journalist who has written extensively on American culture, history and travel, visited the United States. He was looking to explore more of his own country when he first set foot in America but America's eagerness to show him around told him something else entirely. Bryson found himself with too much time on his hands, so he began writing about everything he saw around him. At Home is the result of Bryson's observations, though it's not without its drawbacks. The author sometimes employs an overly florid style that can be difficult to read at times and there are some grammatical errors present. These problems do not detract from the overall literaryism of this work, though - Bryson is always engaging and enlight

Bryson retired from travel writing so that he could focus on his writing. His first book, "The Lost Continent," chronicles his time as a high school language teacher in rural Kentucky. This outline of Bryson's life and work is part memoir and part history of the United States during the twentieth century.

At Home: A Short History of Private Life is a short history of personal privacy from the time when the average person knew very little about the modern world. Bill Bryson manages to cover an enormous amount of information about domestic life, beginning with the dawn of time and ending in late 20th century America. This audiobook can be downloaded for free through Librivox.org or you can purchase it in hard copy.