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The Warlow Experiment
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ISBN10: 1984897802
ISBN13: 9781984897800
Publisher: Anchor Books
Published: Jul 28 2020
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.10 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781984897800
Publisher: Anchor Books
Published: Jul 28 2020
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.10 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
Named one of the best books of 2019 by the Daily Mail, The Sunday Times (London), and the BBC An utterly transporting and original historical novel about an eighteenth-century experiment in personal isolation that yields unexpected--and deeply, shatteringly human--results. The best kind of historical fiction. Alix Nathan is an original, with a virtuoso touch.
--Hilary Mantel Herbert Powyss lives in an estate in the Welsh Marches, with enough time and income to pursue a gentleman's fashionable investigations and experiments in botany. But he longs to make his mark in the field of science--something consequential enough to present to the Royal Society in London. He hits on a radical experiment in isolation: For seven years a subject will inhabit three rooms in the basement of the manor house, fitted out with rugs, books, paintings, and even a chamber organ. Meals will arrive thrice daily via a dumbwaiter. The solitude will be totally unrelieved by any social contact whatsoever; the subject will keep a diary of his daily thoughts and actions. The pay: fifty pounds per annum, for life.
Only one man is desperate to apply for the job: John Warlow, a semi-literate laborer with a wife and six children to provide for. The experiment, a classic Enlightenment exercise gone more than a little mad, will have unforeseen consequences for all included.
Only one man is desperate to apply for the job: John Warlow, a semi-literate laborer with a wife and six children to provide for. The experiment, a classic Enlightenment exercise gone more than a little mad, will have unforeseen consequences for all included.
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