Flowers for Algernon was originally a Hugo Award-winning short story which became the Nebula Award-winning novel and an Oscar-winning film (Charly). Beautifully written and deeply affecting, the novel is a remarkable literary tour de force.
'Beautiful and remorseless in its simple logic...one of the universally appealing stories of our time' Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels
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About Daniel Keyes
Daniel Keyes was born in Brooklyn in 1927, and has world as a merchant seaman, editor and university lecturer. He started his SF career when he became an associate editor of Marvel Science Fiction in 1951. His first short story 'Precedent' appeared in the same magazine in 1952. He is best known for Flowers for Algernon which won a Hugo Award in 1960 as a novella (1959) and went on to win a Nebula Award in (1966) for the full-length novel. In 1968 Flowers for Algernon was made into the Oscar-winning film Charly.
Flowers for Algernon features in the following genres: Science Fiction, eBooks of the Month, Fiction, Recommendations
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Flowers for Algernon was written by Daniel Keyes and published by HARPERCOLLINS an imprint of HarperCollins
Flowers for Algernon has 320 pages
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