8 rows · · Keller, Helen, Title: The World I Live In Language: English: LoC Author: Keller, Helen, · In The World I Live In – The Practice of Optimism, Iby Helen Keller explains in an amazing and inspiring set of biographical accounts, along with essays and poems what it is like for her in her world. Helen Keller, being both deaf and blind, seeing the world through her sense of touch, displays an amazing understanding of the world around her, beauty and descriptions that are beyond Estimated Reading Time: 8 mins. · The World I Live In by Helen Keller is a collection of essays that poignantly tells of her impressions of the world, through her sense of touch, smell, her imagination and dreams. My hand is to me what your hearing and sight together are to bltadwin.ru Interaction Count: K.
out of 5 stars Fascinating insight into Helen Keller's world. Reviewed in the United States on Novem. Verified Purchase. Wonderful book. Helen Keller describes her world with a clarity that is nothing short of miraculous. An extraordinary woman with remarkable strength and intelligence. 1 offer from $ The World I Live In and Optimism: A Collection of Essays (Dover Books on Literature Drama) Helen Keller. out of 5 stars. Kindle Edition. 1 offer from $ The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating. Elisabeth Tova Bailey. Helen Keller relates her impressions of life's beauty and promise, perceived through the sensations of touch, smell, and vibration, together with the workings of a powerful imagination. The World I Live In comprises fifteen essays and a poem, "A Chant of Darkness," all of which originally appeared in The Century Magazine.
"The World I live In" () offers Helen's remarkable insight of the world's beauty perceived through the sensations of touch, smell, and vibration, together with the workings of a powerful imagination. It is her most personal and intellectually adventur. Helen Keller relates her impressions of life's beauty and promise, perceived through the sensations of touch, smell, and vibration, together with the workings of a powerful imagination. The World I Live In comprises fifteen essays and a poem, "A Chant of Darkness," all of which originally appeared in The Century Magazine. These brief articles include "The Seeing Hand," "The Hands of Others," "The Power of Touch," "The Finer Vibrations," "Smell, the Fallen Angel" "Inward Visions," and other. 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 provocative argument that the whole spectrum of the senses lies open to her through the medium of language.
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