Flowers for Algernon (Identities and Issues in Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Daniel Keyes
- First Published: 1966
- Genres: Long fiction, Bildungsroman, Science fiction
- Subjects: 1960’s, New York, North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., United States or Americans, Sex or sexuality, New York City, Friendship, Surgery or surgeons, Death or dying, Funeral rites or ceremonies, Mental retardation, Pets, Hospitals, Learning or scholarship, Intellect, Experiments, Rats or mice
- Locales: New York, NY, Chicago, IL
The Work
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes is one of the classic science fiction novels of the 1960’s. It conveys a moving story about a mentally retarded man gaining genius-level intelligence, only to slowly and tragically regress to his former state. It is widely considered to be one of the most important novels ever written about the nature of human intelligence. The novel won the 1966 Nebula Award.
The novel was expanded from a novella of the same title, which itself won a Hugo Award in 1960. “Flowers for Algernon” (1959) told the story of Charlie...
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