Flowers for Algernon Paperback - 0000
by Daniel Keyes,Daniel Keyes
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- Title Flowers for Algernon
- Author Daniel Keyes,Daniel Keyes
- Binding Paperback
- Edition New Ed
- Condition New
- Pages 216
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Gateway, London UK
- Publication date 0000-00-00
- Bookseller's Inventory # DADAX1857989384
- ISBN 9781857989380 / 1857989384
- Weight 0.03 lbs (0.01 kg)
- Size 7.91x0.71x6.69
- Reading level 910
- Category Literature - Classics / Criticism
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
- Quantity available 1
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Reader reviews for Flowers for Algernon
Review summary
Readers widely regard this as a heartbreaking, humane classic whose “progress reports” structure brilliantly charts Charlie Gordon’s rapid intellectual ascent and lagging emotional growth. Praised as accessible, character-driven, and “soft” science fiction, it compels empathy while interrogating how society treats people with intellectual disabilities. Reviewers highlight its themes of memory, consent, the ethics of experimentation, and the personal cost of intelligence, with many admitting it left them in tears—especially at the end. The evolving prose is celebrated as an ingenious device. Some criticisms surface—dated 1960s gender and psychology tropes, uneven pacing in the expanded novel versus the original short story, and challenging sexual content—but the consensus deems it essential, unforgettable reading.
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