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Author Nathan, Alix, author.

Title The Warlow experiment : a novel / by Alix Nathan.

Publication Info. New York : Doubleday, 2019.

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Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  F NATHAN, A.    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Adult Fiction  NATHAN, ALIX    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Adult Fiction  F NATHAN ALIX    Check Shelf
 Wethersfield Public Library - Adult Fiction  FIC NATHAN    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description 258 pages ; 25 cm
Summary 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.
Subject England -- Social conditions -- History -- 18th century -- Fiction.
Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst01919811
England. (OCoLC)fst01219920
Chronological Term 1700-1799
Genre/Form Novels. (OCoLC)fst01921742
Historical fiction. (OCoLC)fst01726640
Historical fiction.
Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Novels.
Historical fiction.
ISBN 9780385545334
0385545339
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