At Home, a short history of private life

The chosen book for the course is «At Home, a short history of private life», in the italian version «Breve Storia della Vita Privata» by Bill Bryson.
The author tries to tell the history of the world, the evolution of the habits and life conditions through centuries by starting from his house in the eastern England.
He analyzes each room by its history and the people who lived and worked there, passing through the objects that was used there, creating a sort of a documented stream of consciusness.
The main narrative feature is that of telling first the rumors about the history and then solving the reader's curiosity by the documented ones.

Here there's an extract form the main course blogsite, History of Things, that analyzes the history of a room starting from the evolution of the name.

Den Lille Pige med Svovlstikkerne

The Little Match Girl is a short story by Hans Christian Andersen, a danish poet, published for the first time in 1848 in the fifth volume of Nye Eventyr [New Tales].

Here's the italian version translated by Maria Pezzè-Pascolato, in 1903.

The original story written by Andersen was adapted for animation and Live-Action films.
The most recent one is a cartoon made by Disney and directed by Roger Allers.