Story Of My Life Cl

by Keller,Helen

• ISBN13: 9780393057447
• ISBN10: 0393057445
• Edition: 00
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-05-05
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Summary

Everyone, young and old, should know about this compellingly human, deeply spiritual, and courageous woman. The best approach is to read her own words and those of her teacher, Anne Sullivan, in the new, restored edition of The Story of My Life. This "restored" edition has been reedited by Roger Shattuck to reflect more accurately its original composition, presenting Helen Keller's story in three successive accounts: Helen's own version; the letters of "teacher" Anne Sullivan, submerged in the original; and the valuable documentation furnished by their young assistant, John Macy.

Author Biography

Helen Keller was born in Tuscumbia, Alabama, in 1880. Before her second birthday, a mysterious illness left her deaf and blind. She graduated with honors from Radcliffe College in 1904, one year after the initial publication of The Story of My Life, and was the author of thirteen books. She died in 1968 Roger Shattuck, author of Forbidden Knowledge and The Banquet Years, won the National Book Award for a work about Marcel Proust. University Professor Emeritus at Boston University, Shattuck lives in Vermont Dorothy Herrmann is the author of Helen Keller: A Life and of three other biographies. She lives in New Hope, Pennsylvania, and New York City

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	vii
Foreword
One Book, Three Authors by Roger Shattuck	ix
Part One
HELEN KELLER'S ACCOUNT
The Writing of the Book (John Macy)	9	(3)
The Story of My Life	12	(106)
Helen Keller's Notebooks	118	(11)
Part Two
ANNE SULLIVAN'S ACCOUNT
Introduction (John Macy)	129	(8)
Anne Sullivan's Letters and Reports (1887-94)	137	(80)
Part Three
JOHN MACY'S ACCOUNT
Helen's Personality	217	(14)
Miss Sullivan's Educational Methods	231	(7)
Helen's Speech	238	(10)
Helen's Literary Style and the `Frost King" Episode	248	(35)
Part Four
HELEN KELLER'S LETTERS (1887-1901)
Introduction (John Macy)	283	(2)
Letters (1887-1901)	285
APPENDIX
John Macy's 1903 Preface to The Story of My Life	389	(2)
John Macy "Helen Keller as She Really Is," The Ladies' Home Journal, 1902 (extracts)	391	(4)
Two Further Accounts by Helen Keller of the Scene at the Water Pump from My Religion (1927), Chapter 8	395	(1)
from Teacher (1955), Chapter 2	396	(5)
Notes
By Dorothy Herrmann	401	(28)
Afterword
A Mind of One's Own by Roger Shattuck	429	(26)
Resources and Further Reading	455	(4)
Acknowledgments	459	(2)
Index	461