The World I Live In (New York Review Books Classics) | 
|  | | | Title: | The World I Live In (New York Review Books Classics) | | Author: | Helen Keller
Roger Shattuck (Introduction) | | Publisher: | NYRB Classics | | Type: | Book / Paperback | | Publication Date: | 31 January, 2004 | | ISBN / ISBN-13: | 1590170679 / 9781590170670 | | List Price: | $14.00 | | You Save: | $2.80 | | Amazon Price: | $11.20 | |
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Helen Keller's The Story of My Life changed the world. But The World I Live In, Keller's sequel to her autobiography, remains almost completely unknown. Here, responding to skeptics who doubted that a girl who was blind, deaf, and mute almost from birth could find words to describe her experience, Keller presents a striking word-picture of her reality. The World I Live In is an evocative, inspirational, and deeply moving account of an extraordinary woman's keenest impressions. It includes Keller's first published essay, written when she was 12 years old.
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Customer Reviews:
• Wonderfully Touching 05 November, 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 ask politely for her food, etc, it would have been an impressive accomplishment. The fact that she grew to fully embrace her intelligence, her world and her potential . . . wow. I know so many people who are content to just do the bare minimum, to not stretch their limits at all, to not show any intellectual curiosity . . . she had the perfect excuse to exert the least effort, yet she didn't. Once she was given the key, the entree to humanity, she didn't let her handicaps stop her. I love that even all these years later, she is still able to share that.
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• Her World Without Sight And Sound. 26 March, 2007
She tries to help you understand the reality of her life. It is much more than you can imagine.
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• Very Prompt Efficient Delivery 19 May, 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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