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On Going to Bed

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Beds: Evoking history, humor, and human habits.

Anthony Burgess delights in "On Going to Bed," offering a quirky and insightful glance at a universal experience. If you're curious about the cultural history of something as seemingly mundane as the bed and enjoy a blend of wit and erudition, this illustrated journey through our collective relationship with repose and all the activities connected to it will make for an eccentric yet fascinating read.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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On Going to Bed

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ISBN: 9780896592803
Authors: Anthony Burgess
Publisher: Abbeville Press
Date of Publication: 1982-01-01
Format: Hardcover
Goodreads rating: 3.37
(rated by 49 readers)

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From front dust jacket "Children must be coerced into it, enthusastists leap into it, many of us have to be dragged out of it. Bed. ... an irresistible combination of pictures and prose, tells us much of what goes on in bed - a subject that tickles nearly everyone's curiosity. Most of us were conceived in bed, spent the first months of childhood in bed, sleep one-third of our lives away in bed, and will probably end our days in bed, for, as the author says, 'few people die in chairs unless they are electric.' Anthony Burgess, author of the best-selling 'A Clockwork Orange' and 'Earthly Powers'l, here turns his investigatory talents to the fact and fancy, the history and psychology of beds and mankind..." SEE PHOTOS!!
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Beds: Evoking history, humor, and human habits.

Anthony Burgess delights in "On Going to Bed," offering a quirky and insightful glance at a universal experience. If you're curious about the cultural history of something as seemingly mundane as the bed and enjoy a blend of wit and erudition, this illustrated journey through our collective relationship with repose and all the activities connected to it will make for an eccentric yet fascinating read.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.