{"product_id":"the-warlow-experiment-9781984897800","title":"The Warlow Experiment","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eNamed one of the best books of 2019 by the\u003ci\u003e Daily Mail\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Sunday Times \u003c\/i\u003e(London), and the BBC \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAn utterly transporting and original historical novel about an eighteenth-century experiment in personal isolation that yields unexpected--and deeply, shatteringly human--results. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"The best kind of historical fiction. Alix Nathan is an original, with a virtuoso touch.\" \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e--Hilary Mantel\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Anchor Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/28\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781984897800\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 5.10w x 0.90d","brand":"Alix Nathan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36674532671644,"sku":"9781984897800","price":14.41,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_c78c8837-2839-461c-bd19-5987bf47b154.jpg?v=1603932202","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-warlow-experiment-9781984897800","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}