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223050The Warlow Experimenthttps://www.gandhi.com.mx/the-warlow-experiment-1/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/1627420/8f7402d0-04a8-47cc-b013-537f40a04db0.jpg?v=638338506889170000410410MXNPenguin Random House Audio Publishing GroupInStock/Audiolibros/<p>Named one of the best books of 2019 by the <em>Daily Mail</em>, <em>The Sunday Times</em> (London), and the BBC</p><p>An utterly transporting and original historical novel about an eighteenth-century experiment in personal isolation that yields unexpected--and deeply, shatteringly human--results.</p><p>"The best kind of historical fiction. Alix Nathan is an original, with a virtuoso touch."<br />--Hilary Mantel</p><p>Herbert Powyss lives in an estate in the Welsh Marches, with enough time and income to pursue a gentlemans 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.<br />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.</p>...222016The Warlow Experiment410410https://www.gandhi.com.mx/the-warlow-experiment-1/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/1627420/8f7402d0-04a8-47cc-b013-537f40a04db0.jpg?v=638338506889170000InStockMXN99999DIAudiolibro20199780593146804_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9780593146804_<p>Named one of the best books of 2019 by the <em>Daily Mail</em>, <em>The Sunday Times</em> (London), and the BBC</p><p>An utterly transporting and original historical novel about an eighteenth-century experiment in personal isolation that yields unexpected--and deeply, shatteringly human--results.</p><p>The best kind of historical fiction. Alix Nathan is an original, with a virtuoso touch.<br />--Hilary Mantel</p><p>Herbert Powyss lives in an estate in the Welsh Marches, with enough time and income to pursue a gentlemans 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.<br />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.</p>(*_*)9780593146804_<p>Named one of the best books of 2019 by the <em>Daily Mail</em>, <em>The Sunday Times</em> (London), and the BBC</p><p>An utterly transporting and original historical novel about an eighteenth-century experiment in personal isolation that yields unexpected--and deeply, shatteringly human--results.</p><p>"The best kind of historical fiction. Alix Nathan is an original, with a virtuoso touch."<br />--Hilary Mantel</p><p>Herbert Powyss lives in an estate in the Welsh Marches, with enough time and income to pursue a gentlemans 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.<br />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.</p>...9780593146804_Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Groupaudiolibro_8d172f35-ae7e-3133-a0f6-827acefea655_9780593146804;9780593146804_9780593146804Alix NathanInglésMéxicoNoMINUTE2019-08-20T00:00:00+00:00Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group