Behind Closed Doors Ireland 'Chilling and compulsive

'Chilling and compulsive

A Brief History of Earth is an indispensable look at where we’ve been and where we’re going

an untenured Columbia professor

from the Newbery Honor–winning author of Other Words for Home

Together with the five main religions of Buddhism

Behind Closed Doors Ireland 'Chilling and compulsiveIn this brilliant work, Amanda Vickery unlocks the homes of Georgian England to examine the lives of the people who lived there. Writing with her customary wit and verve, she introduces us to men and women from all walks of life: gentlewoman Anne Dormer in her stately Oxfordshire mansion, bachelor clerk and future novelist Anthony Trollope in his dreary London lodgings, genteel spinsters keeping up appearances in two rooms with yellow wallpaper,