Helen Keller, born in 1880, was a healthy, bright-eyed baby girl
until a mystery virus struck her at the age of only 19 months and
rendered her deaf and blind for life. Her parents were priviledged
enough to be able to hire a teacher, Annie Sullivan, to accompany
her from the age of seven on an arduous journey to learn to
communicate. Keller wrote and published a book about her struggle,
'The Story of My Life' at the age of twenty-three: it became a
bestseller and is still a cult classic today. Her follow-up was
'The World I Live In', published in 1908 and out of print ever
since. This new edition reminds us of the genius of Keller's
writing as she explains, in a series of remarkable essays, how she
came to rely on other senses to guide her through life: describing
her heightened sense of smell, she writes that 'as the season
advances, a crisp, dry, mature odor predominates, and gold-rod,
tansy and everlastings mark the onward march of the year'. In yet
another essay, Keller forces us to think about the power of touch,
which is the most important sense to her: the significance of the
human hand as it blesses, heals, forgives and befriends. The
language in this book is typically Edwardian and hence comes across
as slightly dated - but the sobriety and intelligence of Keller's
unselfish self-analysis makes this a profound and thought-provoking
read. (Kirkus UK)
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.
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