The story of Helen Keller (Signature books, 45)

by Helen Keller and Keller Wester Anderson

Book Overview

When she was 19 months old, Helen Keller (1880-1968) suffered a severe illness that left her blind and deaf. Not long after, she also became mute. Her tenacious struggle to overcome these handicaps --... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0007DKH4O
• ISBN13: 9780590337625
• Release Date: January 1958
• Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap
• Length: 181 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Masterpiece

This extraordinary biography is a true masterpiece. One of the greatest books of the 20th Century. Dr R. Chris Barden

Person of the Century

My vote of many others who believe Helen Keller was Person of the Century. She was an incredible human being. Personified what should be the "Human Spirit".

opens your mind

In the introduction Robert Russell says, "Imagine yourself whisked out of your room and suddenly landed on some distant planet where there was other life--but landed with your eyes permanently closed, your ears sealed, and your tongue all but useless. How would you sense an approaching danger or an approaching friend? What would such a life be like? But perhaps such a catastrophe seems so impossible that it isn't worth thinking about. It isn't so impossible. Things like it do happen. It happened to Helen Keller."Helen Keller writes about her own experiences, perceptions, and understanding with a beauty and sweetness that you can touch and taste. Reading about her life expands your mind to life's infinite possibilities, realities, and to the resiliency of the human mind. Helen was a kind, aware, and incredibly intelligent woman. Reading about her life in her own words is irreplaceable. Helen has truly left a mark on this world, and so has her teacher, Anne Sullivan. Both of their lives have left me equally awestruck.