An edition of Flowers for Algernon (1966)

Flowers for Algernon

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An edition of Flowers for Algernon (1966)

Flowers for Algernon

Bantam Edition, 4th printing

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  • ★★★★ 4.3 (80 ratings) ·
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  • 175 Have read

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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216

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institutionalization, dementia, phenylketonuria, award:nebula_award=novel, Brain, Surgery, People with mental disabilities, Gifted persons, Fiction, American Science fiction, Retrasados mentales, Niños superdotados, Open Library Staff Picks, Readers, Cerebro, Ficción juvenil, Cirugía, Science fiction, Juvenile fiction, Young adult fiction, Psychological fiction, Personas dotadas, Nebula Award, Novela, Reading Level-Grade 7, Reading Level-Grade 9, Reading Level-Grade 8, Reading Level-Grade 11, Reading Level-Grade 10, Reading Level-Grade 12, Fiction, science fiction, general, Large type books, Children's fiction, People with mental disabilities, fiction, Mentally handicapped, Personnes ayant une déficience intellectuelle, Romans, nouvelles, Surdoués, Cerveau, Chirurgie, Grifted peoples

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Charlie Gordon, Alice Kinnian, Dr. Nemur, Dr. Strauss, Norma Gordon, Algernon

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United States, Beekman College Center for Retarded Adults, Brooklyn, Warren Home School

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Flowers for Algernon
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1988, ediciones
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Flowers for Algernon
1975-07, Bantam Books
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Flowers for Algernon
1968-10, Bantam Books
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Fiori per Algernon
/1968, Nord
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Flowers for Algernon
1966?, [publisher not identified]
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1966

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mass market paperback
Pagination
216p.
Number of pages
216

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OL39823060M
Internet Archive
flowersforalgern0000dani
OCLC/WorldCat
797516183

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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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