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 …
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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... (source)
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Flowers for Algernon
hardcover, 274 pages
Published March 27, 1966 by Harcourt.
Flowers for Algernon
Mass Market Paperback
English language
Published May 5, 1984 by Bantam Books.
FLOWERS FOR ALGERNON.
Published Jan. 5, 1968 by Bantam Books.
Flowers for Algernon
Published March 31, 1989 by Heinemann Educational Publishers.
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