Flowers For Algernon: The must-read literary science fiction masterpiece
Daniel Keyes
Aug 2017 · Gateway · Narrated by Adam Sims
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'A masterpiece of poignant brilliance . . . heartbreaking' Guardian
Charlie Gordon, a floor sweeper born with an unusually low IQ, has been chosen as the perfect subject for an experimental surgery that doctors hope will increase his intelligence - a procedure that has been highly successful when tested on a lab mouse named Algernon. All Charlie wants is to be smart and have friends, but the treatement turns him into a genius.
Then Algernon begins to fade. What will become of Charlie?
Read by Adam Sims
(p) Orion Publishing Group 2017
Charlie Gordon, a floor sweeper born with an unusually low IQ, has been chosen as the perfect subject for an experimental surgery that doctors hope will increase his intelligence - a procedure that has been highly successful when tested on a lab mouse named Algernon. All Charlie wants is to be smart and have friends, but the treatement turns him into a genius.
Then Algernon begins to fade. What will become of Charlie?
Read by Adam Sims
(p) Orion Publishing Group 2017
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4.9
14 reviews
Alvaro Sainz
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February 27, 2024
Beatifully interpreted. Beatiful book. Beautiful story. Really good science fiction.
Moose
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June 23, 2019
Very good book, and very well read! I love the bittersweet nature of the book
Chr1st1n3 S1t0
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January 8, 2023
I am so thankful to have come across a beautiful piece of literature.
About the author
Daniel Keyes was born in Brooklyn in 1927 and has worked as a merchant seaman, editor and university lecturer. He has published two other novels, but Flowers for Algernon remains his best known work.
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