Flowers For Algernon
Published on 1. August 2006
Book
Paperback/Softback
256 pages
978-0-575-07920-5 (ISBN)
Description
Charlie Gordon, IQ 68, is a floor sweeper, and the gentle butt of everyone's jokes, until an experiment in the enhancement of human intelligence turns him into a genius. But then Algernon, the mouse whose triumphal experimental transformation preceeded his, fades and dies, and Charlie has to face the possibilty that his salvation was only temporary.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Orion Publishing Co
Dimensions
Height: 196 mm
Width: 128 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
210 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-575-07920-5 (9780575079205)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
New editions
Book
01/2000
Gollancz
€14.00
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Person
Daniel Keyes was born in Brooklyn in 1927 and has worked as a merchant seaman, editor and university lecturer. He has published two other novels, but Flowers for Algernon remains his best known work.