Science fiction Literary Classics 1966

Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

Published in Spanish as Flores para Algernon

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.

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Told in letters, diaries or messages · tender and sad at once

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Letters and diaries

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Letters and documents
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Our world, slightly bent

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It's for you if…

  • you don't mind a good cry
  • you like a book that stays with you for days
  • you like to close a book feeling better

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