Story of a mentally disabled man whose experimental quest for intelligence mirrors that of Algernon, an extraordinary lab mouse. In diary entries, he tells how a brain operation increases his IQ and changes his life. As the experimental procedure takes effect, his intelligence expands until it surpasses that of the doctors who engineered his metamorphosis.
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Story of a mentally disabled man whose experimental quest for intelligence mirrors that of Algernon, an extraordinary lab mouse. In diary entries, he tells how a brain operation increases his IQ and changes his life. As the experimental procedure takes effect, his intelligence expands until it surpasses that of the doctors who engineered his metamorphosis.