Dr Strauss says I should rite down what I think and remembir and evrey thing that happins to me from now on.
An edition of Flowers for Algernon
(1966)
Flowers for Algernon
by Daniel Keyes
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Charlie Gordon is about to embark upon an unprecedented journey. Born with an unusually low IQ, he has been chosen as the perfect subject for an experimental surgery that researchers hope will increase his intelligence--a procedure that has already been highly successful when tested on a lab mouse named Algernon.
As the treatment takes effect, Charlie's intelligence expands until it surpasses that of the doctors who engineered his metamorphosis. The experiment appears to be a scientific breakthrough of paramount importance, until Algernon suddenly deteriorates. Will the same happen to Charlie?
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institutionalization, dementia, phenylketonuria, award:nebula_award=novel, Brain, Surgery, People with mental disabilities, Gifted persons, Fiction, American Science fiction, Retrasados mentales, Niños superdotados, Open Library Staff Picks, Readers, Cerebro, Ficción juvenil, Cirugía, Science fiction, Juvenile fiction, Young adult fiction, Psychological fiction, Personas dotadas, Nebula Award, Novela, Reading Level-Grade 7, Reading Level-Grade 9, Reading Level-Grade 8, Reading Level-Grade 11, Reading Level-Grade 10, Reading Level-Grade 12, Fiction, science fiction, general, Large type books, Children's fiction, People with mental disabilities, fiction, Mentally handicapped, Personnes ayant une déficience intellectuelle, Romans, nouvelles, Surdoués, Cerveau, Chirurgie, Grifted peoplesPeople
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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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