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Flowers for Algernon

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"Flowers For Algernon" made its first appearance as a short story which was rapidly and widely anthologized, and translated internationally. It received further acclaim as a moderated television drama, and as a motional picture production. Now, full bodied and richly-peopled, "Flowers For Algernon" is the daring novel of a starling human experiment "A tale that is convincing, suspectful and touching..."
-- "The New York Times"

"Fascinating, agonizing... Superb."
--"Birmingham News"

"This novel should be on your 'must read' list."
-- "Palm Beach Post-Times"

"Strikingly original..."
-- "Publishers' Weekly"

"Absorbing... Immensely original... Going to be read for a long time to come."
-- "Library Journal"

60 pages, Paperback

First published July 1, 1999

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January 21, 2013
I read the short story and it was nice to see the differences between the short story adn the full novel, at a gance.
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