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
pro-vocative argument that the whole spectrum of the senses lies open to
her through the medium of language. Standing in the line of the works of
Emerson and Thoreau, The World I Live In is a profoundly suggestive
exercise in self-invention, and a true, rediscovered classic of American
literature.
This new edition of The World I Live In also includes Helen Keller's
early essay "Optimism," as well as her first published work, "My Story,"
written when she was twelve.