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The Story of My Life

The Story of My Life Mass market paperback - 2010

by Helen Keller

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Helen Keller's triumph over her blindness and deafness has become one of the most inspiring stories of our time. Here, in a book first published when she was young woman, is Helen Keller's own story--complex, poignant, and filled with love. Revised reissue.

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Penguin Publishing Group, 2010. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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  • Title The Story of My Life
  • Author Helen Keller
  • Binding Mass Market Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 256
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin Publishing Group, New York, New York
  • Date 2010
  • Features Bibliography, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # G0451531566I4N00
  • ISBN 9780451531568 / 0451531566
  • Weight 0.3 lbs (0.14 kg)
  • Dimensions 6.7 x 4.1 x 0.9 in (17.02 x 10.41 x 2.29 cm)
  • Ages 12 to 17 years
  • Grade levels 7 - 12
  • Reading level 1150
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
    • Chronological Period: 1851-1899
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
    • Topical: Physically Challenged
  • Library of Congress subjects Keller, Helen, People with disabilities - Education -
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2010284885
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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Summary

With a new afterword by actress Marlee Matlin

Helen Keller' striumph over her blindness and deafness has become one of the most inspiring stories of our time. Here, in a book first published when she was young woman, is Helen Keller's own story- complex, poignant, and filled with love.

From the publisher

Helen Adams Keller was born in Tuscumbia, Alabama, in 1880. As the result of an illness she was deaf and blind from the age of 19 months. In 1887 her learning began with her teacher Anne Mansfield Sullivan, and at the age of 19 she entered Radcliffe College, graduating in 1904. A well-known lecturer and writer, she published her autobiography, The Story of My Life, in 1902. Her other works include Optimism (1903), The World I Live In (1908), and The Song of the Stone Wall (1910). Keller died in Westport, Connecticut, in 1968.

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About the author

Helen Adams Keller (1880-1968) was born in Tuscumbia, Alabama in 1880. As a result of an illness, she became deaf and blind at the age of nineteen months. In 1887, her learning began with her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, and at the age of nineteen, she entered Radcliffe College, from which she graduated in 1904. A well-known lecturer and writer, she published her autobiography, The Story of My Life, in 1902. Her other works include Optimism (1903), The World I Live In (1908), and The Song of the Stone Wall (1910).

Marlee Matlin received worldwide critical acclaim for her film "Children of a Lesser God," for which she received the Academy Award for Best Actress, becoming the youngest recipient of the Best Actress Oscar and only one of four actresses to receive the honor for her film debut. Since then she has gone on to star in numerous film and television roles. In 1994, she was appointed by President Clinton to the Corporation for National Service and she currently serves as spokesperson for The American Red Cross as well as on the boards of a number of charitable organizations, continuing to advocate on behalf of children and people with disabilities. She has authored three novels for children, Deaf Child Crossing, Nobody's Perfect and Leading Ladies and in 2009, published her New York Times bestselling autobiography I'll Scream Later.

Jim Knipfel is a staff writer at New York Press, as well as the author of Slackjaw and Quitting the Nairobi Trio.

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