num_pages: 216
description: Charlie 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.
language: English
title: Flowers for Algernon
titlecomplete: Flowers for Algernon
characters: Fay Lillman, Alice Kinnian, Algernon, Professor Harold Nemur, Charlie Gordon, Burt Seldon, Dr. Strauss
genres: Read For School, School, Science Fiction, Novels, Young Adult, Literature, Psychology, Classics, Adult, Fiction
ratings_count: 637983
places: New York City, New York, The United States of America, New York (State)
awards: awardedAt: -94665600000
name: Hugo Award
category: Best Novel, awardedAt: -126201600000
name: Nebula Award
category: Best Novel (tie), awardedAt: 157795200000
name: Locus Award
category: All-Time Best Novel (36th in poll)
publisher: Gollancz