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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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Earnest, spare, intimate and grave.
- earnestironic
- sparerichly built
- intimateepic
- gravecomic
- contemplativerelentless
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About the book
- Author
- Daniel Keyes
- First published
- 1966
- Pages
- 274
- Publisher
- Indigo, J'ai Lu, Sagebrush Education Resources
- Editions
- 79
- Language
- Italian, Japanese, English, und
- ISBN
- 9782081620445
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