Flowers for Algernon (1966) [Novel]
by Daniel Keyes
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Summary
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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 transformation preceded his, fades and dies, and Charlie has to face the possibility that his salvation was only temporary.
Original title: Flowers for Algernon
Original languages:
English
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Genre: Fiction→ Science Fiction→ Species Evolution→ Bioengineering
This work is an adaptation of the following works :
Flowers for Algernon (1959) [Novella]
Author: Daniel Keyes
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