02585cam a2200397 i 4500 623701830 TxAuBib 20080415120000.0 950503s1966||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 95148312 9780151001637 0151001634 (OCoLC)32744040 DLC eng rda DLC DLC TxAuBib rda Keyes, Daniel. Flowers for Algernon / Daniel Keyes. New York : Harcourt Brace, 1966. 286 pages ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Harcourt Brace modern classic When we first meet Charlie he is about to embark on a compelling but dangerous journey from retardation to genius. He has only a vague understanding of what will happen, but he is aware that knowledge and the ability to write are of paramount importance. So he doesn't hesitate for a moment to cooperate in a radical experiment designed to increase his intelligence, the key - he hopes - to being valued as a human being and to being loved. Daniel Keyes's powerful and highly original story of a young man whose quest for intelligence and knowledge parallels that of Algernon (the mouse who is an earlier subject of a similar experiment) remains unique in imaginative literature. We follow Charlie Gordon's mental, emotional, and spiritual growth. We watch with excitement as he becomes the focus of attention by the scientific world, his intellectual capacities far surpassing those of the psychologists and neurosurgeons who engineered his metamorphosis. We also follow the progress of his romance with two women, one who knew him before the experiment as well as with another, who knows him only as the attractive, bright, and sympathetic man he has become. And, finally, we hope against hope that what happens suddenly, unexpectedly, to Algernon will not happen to Charlie. 910L Lexile. Accelerated Reader AR UG 5.8 13 738. 20080415. People with mental disabilities Fiction. Gifted persons Fiction. Brain Surgery Fiction. Psychological fiction. Fiction. Harcourt Brace modern classic. https://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/samples/har051/95148312.html Sample text https://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/description/har041/95148312.html Publisher description TXKPL