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Flowers for Algernon
Artikel-Nr:
9781857989380
Veröffentl:
2000
Erscheinungsdatum:
13.01.2000
Seiten:
216
Autor:
Daniel Keyes
Gewicht:
210 g
Format:
198x128x20 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Daniel Keyes (1927-2014)Born in Brooklyn in 1927, Daniel Keyes worked as a merchant seaman, editor and university lecturer. He published four other novels, but Flowers for Algernon, originally a short story, for which he won the Hugo Award, later expanded into the Nebula Award-winning novel and adapted as an Oscar-winning film (Charly, 1968) remains his best-known work. Daniel Keyes had a masters degree in English and American literature and was a Professor of English and Creative writing. He died in 2014.
The classic novel about a daring experiment in human intelligenceCharlie 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.
Classic novel of a daring experiment in human intelligence.
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