Flowers for Algernon

by Daniel Keyes

One of a series of top-quality fiction for schools. Charlie Gordon, who desperately wants to be able to read and write, undergoes a brain operation which dramatically increases his intelligence. But can his emotional development keep pace with the intellectual?

• ISBN10: 0156030306
• ISBN13: 9780156030304
• Publish Date: 1 May 2005 (first published 1 March 1966)
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: Mariner Books Classics
• Format: Paperback (US Trade)
• Pages: 311
• Language: English

Reviews

[Bianca]

2019 Popsugar Reading Challenge
‪12. A book with a plant in the title or on the cover‬

How strange it is that people of honest feelings and sensibility, who would not take advantage of a man born without arms or legs or eyes—how such people think nothing of abusing a man born with low intelligence. It infuriated me to remember that not too long ago I—like this boy—had foolishly played the clown.

And I had almost forgotten.

Only a short time ago, I learned that people laughed at me. Now I can see that unknowingly I joined them in laughing at myself. That hurts most of all.

— This was a sad and heartbreaking book that explores humanity, intelligence, happiness, and how ignorance truly is bliss sometimes. THE LAST PAGES TOTALLY BROKE MY HEART 😭💔