Helen Keller

The story of my life

Helen Keller's personal recollections and correspondence reveal her relationship with her beloved teacher, Annie Sullivan, and the problems and obstacles she encountered as she struggled to overcome her disabilities, in this special edition that features a new afterword by Marlee Matlin. Reprint.

The Story of My Life

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Annika Arguemore

inspiring is all I could say. if I were in her position (being me, haha), I wouldn't have/couldn't have done the things she has done. I admire her for that!

Sanaa Shaltout

علي الرغم من بساطة الأسلوب أو الترجمه إلا إنك تحس وأنت بتقرأ إن القارئ هو اللى عنده إعاقه مش هيلين .. هيلين كانت قويه كنت بحس وانا بقرأ كإنى بقرأ لشخصيه تملك كل ما يملكه البشر من حواس ولكن عبقريتها في تعليمها وصبرها ... أنا حسيت بالعجز وانا بقرأ لحضرتك :)
فيه جمله حلوه كتبتيها ... فيما معناها لقد تعلمت أن أكون قانعة بما أنا فيه، وإن كنت في بعض الأحيان ينتابنى الشعور بأني أعيش وحيدة منفردة تماماً كما لو كنت أجلس إلي نفسي خارج بوابة مغلقة، بينما الدار ذاتها في الداخل حافلة بألوان البهجة من أَواء وصحبة جميلة هانئة دون أن يكون بوسعي اجتياز تلك البوابة التي شاء الله أن يبقيني خارجها أو أحيانا يخيم عليّ لحظات مظلمة أتساءل فيما عن نصيبي ودوري في الحياة وتتلاعب برأسي أفكار مريرة، لكن الأمل ما يلبث أن يملأ جوانحي وتعاودني البهجة حين أنسى واقعي المؤلم.. إنني أحاول دائماً أن أجععل الضوء في عيون الأخرين شمساً دافئة وقمراً منيراً <3

Melissa Schwartz

Really liked it and was glad to further read about Helen's life, though I thought including pages and pages of her letters became a bit. Marlee Matlin's afterword was really touching as well

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Amanda Marie Nguyen

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Amrie Cruz

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Jill Clark

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“...every one who wishes to gain true knowledge must climb the Hill Difficulty alone, and since there is no royal road to the summit, I must zigzag it in my own way. I slip back many times, I fall, I stand still, I run against the edge of hidden obstacles, I lose my temper and find it again and keep it better, I trudge on, I gain a little, I feel encouraged, I get more eager and climb higher and begin to see the widening horizon. Every struggle is a victory. One more effort and I reach the luminous cloud, the blue depths of the sky, the uplands of my desire.” HELEN KELLER was born on June 27, 1880 in Tuscumbia, Alabama. At nineteen months old an acute illness nearly took her life and left her deaf and blind. At the recommendation of Alexander Graham Bell, her parents contacted the Perkins Institute for the Blind in Boston, and Anne Sullivan was sent to tutor Helen. The story of their early years together, and of Helen’s remarkable psychological and intellectual growth, is told in The Story of My Life, which first appeared in installments in Ladies’ Home Journal in 1902. With Anne Sullivan, “Teacher,” at her side, Helen Keller graduated from Radcliffe College in 1904, an extraordinary accomplishment for any woman of her time. Helen was dedicated to helping the blind and handicapped, raising funds for the American Foundation for the Blind and lobbying for commissions for the blind in thirty states. A women’s rights activist, a Swedenborgian, a socialist, and a world-famous celebrity, Helen Keller received the Presidential Medal of Freedom and many honorary degrees. Her other books include The World I Live In (1908), Midstream: My Later Life (1929), Helen Keller’s Journal (1938), and Let Us Have Faith (1940). She died in 1968. Her burial urn is in the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C.

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