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Flowers for Algernon

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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 tranformation preceded his, fades and dies, and Charlie has to face the possibility that his salvation was only temporary.

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Gollancz
1857989384 / 9781857989380
Paperback / softback
813.54
13/01/2000
United Kingdom
English
Science fiction
216 pages
20 cm
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Quiz No: 200138, Points 13.00, Book Level 5.80,
Upper Years - Key Stage 3 Learn More
Reprint. Originally published: New York: Harcourt Brace, 1966.
No.25 in the Millennium SF Masterworks series, a library of the finest science fiction ever written * Winner of the HUGO and NEBULA awards. * 'A narrative tour de force, very moving, beautiful and remorseless in its simple logic' Science Fiction: 100 Best Novels * Basis for the Oscar winning film Charly.
No.25 in the Millennium SF Masterworks series, a library of the finest science fiction ever written * Winner of the HUGO and NEBULA awards. * 'A narrative tour de force, very moving, beautiful and remorseless in its simple logic' Science Fiction: 100 Best Novels * Basis for the Oscar winning film Charly. FL Science fiction