The Story of My Life | The World I Live In | Essays, Speeches, Letters, and Journals
TABLE OF CONTENTS THE STORY OF MY LIFE Editor’s Preface PART I: The Story of My Life PART II: Letters (1887–1901) PART III: A Supplementary Account of Helen Keller’s Life and Education I. The Writing of the Book II. Personality III. Education IV. Speech V. Literary Style
THE WORLD I LIVE IN Preface I. The Seeing Hand II. The Hands of Others III. The Hand of the Race IV. The Power of Touch V. The Finer Vibrations VI. Smell, the Fallen Angel VII. Relative Values of the Senses VIII. The Five-sensed World IX. Inward Visions X. Analogies in Sense Perception XI. Before the Soul Dawn XII. The Larger Sanctions XIII. The Dream World XIV. Dreams and Reality XV. A Waking Dream A Chant of Darkness
ESSAYS, SPEECHES, LETTERS & JOURNALS Letter to Kate Keller, February 10, 1895 My Future As I See It Blind Leaders Strike Against War From My Religion Our Mark Twain My Mother Lux in Tenebris Woman and Peace Put Your Husband in the Kitchen From Helen Keller’s Journal Testimony Before the House Subcommittee of Labor Investigating Aid to the Physically Handicapped, October 3, 1944 Letter to Nella Braddy Henney, October 14, 1948 Letter to Jo and Florence Davidson, August 1, 1951
Helen Keller is an American icon whose trailblazing life redefined human possibilities. Having lost both her sight and hearing in infancy, she broke through formidable barriers to become the first deafblind college graduate in the United States, an activist and public speaker, and a global celebrity. But her most enduring achievement is as a writer. This volume gathers her classic autobiographies The Story of My Life (1903) and The World I Live In (1908) with selections from her essays, speeches, letters, and journals, most of them out of print or previously uncollected.
First published while she was a twenty-three-year-old Radcliffe sophomore, Keller’s unforgettable memoir The Story of My Life has become a touchstone for generations of readers. It recounts how, with the help of Anne Sullivan, her beloved and innovative teacher, Keller unlocked the gift of language. In one of the most famous passages in our literature, Sullivan spells w-a-t-e-r into Keller’s hand at the family water pump, provoking an electric response: “Water! That word startled my soul, and it awoke, full of the spirit of the morning, full of joyous, exultant song.” The memoir is joined here by Sullivan’s riveting journal entries charting her student’s rapid progress, which is revealed in a selection of Keller’s earliest compositions.
In a playful, reflective key, The World I Live In explores some of the many questions readers had for Keller in the wake of the memoir’s runaway success. How could she know of color or songs without seeing or hearing them? Did she dream? What was it like to be her? Upon reading the book that resulted, the philosopher William James, who found himself “quite disconcerted, professionally speaking” by its originality, wrote Keller immediately to praise her “genius for psychological insight,” her expressive gifts, and her faith in the power of imagination.
Selected by Kim E. Nielsen, Keller’s biographer and one of the nation’s leading experts on disability history, the essays, speeches, letters, and journals that round out this volume span more than fifty years to survey Keller’s wide-ranging commitments to women’s rights, workers’ rights, racial equality, and the pacifist tradition. Chapters from My Religion (1927) express her fervent Swedenborgian faith; later letters describe visits to South Africa under apartheid and postwar Hiroshima.
The volume features a sixteen-page portfolio of biographical images, including several never before published, along with all of the many illustrations that appeared in the original editions of Keller’s works.
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