The World I Live In - Softcover
"She shows her ability to create almost new thoughts....A book of creative imagination. The book is most true to the author's vision of life as it is her vision of life. It is sincere....When one reads it one knows she is an optimist and always trying to see the best in everything even with her great disabilities. The book appeals both to the intellect and to the emotions. One is struck with the ability Miss Keller has obtained, and a realization of the affliction of blindness or deafness....It will endure as a permanent contribution to literature." -Wisconsin Library Bulletin
"The autobiography of Helen Keller is unquestionably one of the most remarkable records ever published." -British Weekly
"This book is a human document of intense interest, and without a parallel, we suppose, in the history of literature." -Yorkshire Post
"Miss Keller's autobiography, well written and full of practical interest in all sides of life, literary, artistic and social, records an extraordinary victory over physical disabilities." -Times
"This book is a record of the miraculous. No one can read it without being profoundly touched by the patience and devotion which brought the blind, deaf-mute child into touch with human life, without being filled with wonder at the quick intelligence which made such communication with the outside world possible." -Queen
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I The Seeing Hand
CHAPTER II The Hands of Others
CHAPTER III The Hand of the Race
CHAPTER IV The Power of Touch
CHAPTER V The Finer Vibrations
CHAPTER VI Smell, the Fallen Angel
CHAPTER VII Relative Values of the Senses
CHAPTER VIII The Five-sensed World
CHAPTER IX Inward Visions
CHAPTER X Analogies in Sense Perception
CHAPTER X Before the Soul Dawn
CHAPTER XII The Larger Sanctions
CHAPTER XIII The Dream World
CHAPTER XIV Dreams and Reality
CHAPTER XV A Waking Dream
A CHANT OF DARKNESS
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About the Author:
Helen Adams Keller (June 27, 1880 – June 1, 1968) was an American author, political activist, and lecturer. She was the first deaf-blind person to earn a bachelor of arts degree. The story of how Keller's teacher, Anne Sullivan, broke through the isolation imposed by a near complete lack of language, allowing the girl to blossom as she learned to communicate, has become widely known through the dramatic depictions of the play and film The Miracle Worker. A prolific author, Keller was well-traveled and outspoken in her convictions. A member of the Socialist Party of America and the Industrial Workers of the World, she campaigned for women's suffrage, labor rights, socialism, antimilitarism, and other similar causes. Helen Keller was born with the ability to see and hear. At 19 months old, she contracted an illness described by doctors as "an acute congestion of the stomach and the brain", which might have been scarlet fever or meningitis. The illness left her both deaf and blind. In spite of this “death blow” from life Keller learned to speak, and spent much of her life giving speeches and lectures. She learned to "hear" people's speech by reading their lips with her hands—her sense of touch had become extremely subtle. She was a paragon of “optimism and Hope” to other people.
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- PublisherCreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- Publication date2016
- ISBN 10 154102303X
- ISBN 13 9781541023031
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages106
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