The Story of My Life

The Story of My Life Reviews

One of the ?hundred most important books of the twentieth century? (New York Public Library), finally published in complete form.The story of Helen Keller, the young girl who triumphed over deafness and blindness, has been indelibly marked into our cultural consciousness. That triumph, shared with her teacher Anne Sullivan, has been further popularized by the play and movie The Miracle Worker. Yet the astonishing original version of Keller?s and Sullivan?s story, first published in 1903, has been out of print for many years and lost to the public.

Now, one hundred years after its initial publication, eminent literary scholar Roger Shattuck, in collaboration with Keller biographer Dorothy Herrmann, has reedited the book to reflect more accurately its original composition. Keller?s remarkable acquisition of language is presented here in three successive accounts: Keller?s own version; the letters of ?teacher? Anne Sullivan, submerged in the earliest edition; and the valu (More?)

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