Clean and Decent: The Fascinating History of the Bathroom and the Water-Closet

By Lawrence Wright

Book Overview

Who would have supposed that the Romans had lagged hot-water pipes? that Queen Elizabeth I had a valve water-closet? that Louis XIV had cushions in his bath? that sponges have sex? This book, says the author, is meant to entertain, even if scholarship does keep breaking through.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0141390352
• ISBN13: 9780141390352
• Release Date: May 2005
• Publisher: Penguin Global
• Length: 282 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.3" x 0.8" x 5.3"