The World I Live In and Optimism

These poetic, inspiring essays offer remarkable insights into the world of a gifted woman who was deaf and blind. Keller relates her impressions, perceived through the senses and imagination, of the world's beauty and promise.

Helen Keller was an American author, lecturer, and political activist. At nineteen months, she suffered an illness that left her deaf, blind, and eventually mute. Helen remained in a lonely state of sensory deprivation until she reached the age of six, when Anne Sullivan (also visually impaired) was employed by

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Helen Adams Keller (1880 - 1968) was an American author, political activist, and lecturer. She was the first deafblind person to earn a bachelor of arts degree. At age 22, Keller published her autobiography, The Story of My Life (1903). Keller wrote The World I Live In in 1908, giving

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