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Flowers for Algernon

Daniel Keyes

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#822 of 8,085 books · #146 in Science Fiction

Won the Nebula Award for Best Novel (1966). Also shortlisted or longlisted for 1 other award.

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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Publisher
Harcourt Trade Publishers
ISBN-13
9780553169041
Topics
Intelligence and human enhancementIdentity and self-discoveryEthics of scientific experimentation

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