Books like Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
Charlie Gordon, a gentle and amiable person living with intellectual disability, learns reading and writing but feels confined by his mental limitations. After a groundbreaking operation on a white mouse named Algernon that renders it a genius, a similarly ambitious procedure is proposed for Charlie. This experiment promises to elevate his cognitive abilities, challenging notions of identity, morality, and the very nature of human intelligence.
First publish date: 1966
Genre: Psychological Fiction/Psychological Drama
Authors: Daniel Keyes
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