World I Live In

Name: World I Live In
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ISBN: 9781590170670

ISBN-10: 1590170679

ISBN-13: 9781590170670

Edition: 2003

Authors: Helen Keller, Roger Shattuck

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'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.

Book details

List price: $16.95
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: New York Review of Books, Incorporated, The
Publication date: 1/31/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 192
Size: 5.00" wide x 7.95" long x 0.51" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English

Roger Shattuck taught for many years at Boston University and now resides in Vermont. He is the author, most recently, of "Candor & Perversion".



Introduction: "A World of Words"


Preface



The Seeing Hand



The Hands of Others



The Hand of the Race



The Power of Touch



The Finer Vibrations



Smell, the Fallen Angel



Relative Values of the Senses



The Five-sensed World



Inward Visions



Analogies in Sense Perception



Before the Soul Dawn



The Larger Sanctions



The Dream World



Dreams and Reality



A Waking Dream


A Chant of Darkness


Optimism: An Essay



Optimism Within



Optimism Without



The Practice of Optimism


My Story


Notes and Sources