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ISBN: 1590170679

ISBN13: 9781590170670

The World I Live In

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Item: The World I Live In
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By Helen Keller

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Book Overview

Out of print for nearly a century, The World I Live In is Helen Keller's most personal and intellectually adventurous work--one that transforms our appreciation of her extraordinary achievements. Here this preternaturally gifted deaf and blind young woman closely describes her sensations and the workings of her imagination, while making the pro-vocative argument that the whole spectrum of the senses lies open to her through the medium of language. Standing in the line of the works of Emerson and Thoreau, The World I Live In is a profoundly suggestive exercise in self-invention, and a true, rediscovered classic of American literature. This new edition of The World I Live In also includes Helen Keller's early essay "Optimism," as well as her first published work, "My Story," written when she was twelve. This description may be from another edition of this product.

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1590170679

ISBN13:9781590170670

Release Date:January 2004

Publisher:New York Review of Books

Length:182 Pages

Weight:0.56 lbs.

Dimensions:0.5" x 5.0" x 8.1"

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By Thriftbooks.com User, November 25, 2009

I particularly enjoyed reading about her dreams and how she 'saw' the world with her hands. However I didn't enjoy the repeated focus on proving that life is just as good or perhaps better without the ability to see. It's a fruitless argument from any side, she was speaking to a different audience of a different time of course but this became quickly redundant.

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very prompt efficient delivery

By Thriftbooks.com User, May 19, 2008

I received the book promptly. The material was in new condition without any flaws. I was very pleased. Thank you!

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Her world without sight and sound.

By Thriftbooks.com User, March 26, 2007

She tries to help you understand the reality of her life. It is much more than you can imagine.

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Rated 5 stars
Wonderfully touching

By Thriftbooks.com User, November 5, 2004

What beautiful writing! It's pointed out in the intro that, more than most of us, her world was shaped with WORDS. I've only read about four essays so far, and am profoundly touched. I've always admired Helen Keller, but am newly re-impressed with her wisdom and vision, and touched that she can write so clearly as to make me feel how little she felt limited by her handicap. If Helen Keller had simply learned to behave and...

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