Our Story of Home considers the role this intimate space has played for some of our greatest storytellers. Marcel Proust worked in a quiet, cork-lined room to conjure memories of Paris in the Belle Epoque. Jane Austen’s heroines met their fate in tidy English drawing rooms. Herman Melville’s writing desk in Massachusetts faced a hill shaped like a whale. Virginia Woolf’s novels were elegies on the inner life of home.ndrews also explores the deep psychology of home, noting that the psychiatrist C.G. Jung had two houses, each corresponding to different aspects of the personality. At his formal residence in Küsnacht, Switzerland, he entertained colleagues and presided over family life. At his rustic retreat on lake at Bollingen, he lived in solitude and honed his concept of eternity. Our dwellings—no matter how simple or how grand—serve two purposes; they support our role in
the family and community and provide solace to the questing soul.