An edition of Flowers for Algernon (1966)

Flowers for Algernon

by Daniel Keyes

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An edition of Flowers for Algernon (1966)

Flowers for Algernon

by Daniel Keyes

★★★★ 4.3 (86 ratings) ·
842 Want to read
36 Currently reading
185 Have read

Charlie Gordon is about to embark upon an unprecedented journey. Born with an unusually low IQ, he has been chosen as the perfect subject for an experimental surgery that researchers hope will increase his intelligence--a procedure that has already been highly successful when tested on a lab mouse named Algernon.

As the treatment takes effect, Charlie's intelligence expands until it surpasses that of the doctors who engineered his metamorphosis. The experiment appears to be a scientific breakthrough of paramount importance, until Algernon suddenly deteriorates. Will the same happen to Charlie?
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2004

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Harcourt

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English

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A Harvest Book

Published in: Orlando, USA
Copyright Date: 1994

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Dewey Decimal Class: 813/.54
Library of Congress: PS3561.E769F56 2004

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Format: Paperback

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Open Library: OL26781683M
ISBN 10: 0156030306
ISBN 13: 9780156030304
LCCN: 2004005049
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Until he was thirty-two, Charlie Gordon --gentle, amiable, oddly engaging-- had lived in a kind of mental twilight. He knew knowledge was important and had learned to read and write after a fashion, but he also knew he wasn't nearly as bright as most of the people around him. There was even a white mouse named Algernon who outpaced Charlie in some ways. But a remarkable operation had been performed on Algernon, and now he was a genius among mice. Suppose Charlie underwent a similar operation...

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Dr Strauss says I should rite down what I think and remembir and evrey thing that happins to me from now on.

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Flowers for Algernon

by Daniel Keyes