{"product_id":"2940169154665","title":"The Warlow Experiment: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn utterly transporting and original historical novel about an eighteenth-century experiment in personal isolation that yields unexpectedamp;mdash;and deeply, shatteringly humanamp;mdash;results.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHerbert 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 scienceamp;mdash;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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOnly 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47116667814128,"sku":"2940169154665","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169154665_p0.jpg?v=1763763471","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169154665","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}