The Story of My Life: The Restored Classic 1903-2003 - Hardcover

Keller, Helen; Sullivan, Annie; Macy, John Albert; Shattuck, Roger; Herrmann, Dorothy

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0393057445 ISBN 13: 9780393057447

Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company, 2003

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The story of Helen Keller, the young girl who triumphed over deafness and blindness, has been indelibly marked into our cultural consciousness. That triumph, shared with her teacher Anne Sullivan, has been further popularized by the play and movie The Miracle Worker. Yet the astonishing original version of Keller's and Sullivan's story, first published in 1903, has been out of print for many years and lost to the public.

Now, one hundred years after its initial publication, eminent literary scholar Roger Shattuck, in collaboration with Keller biographer Dorothy Herrmann, has reedited the book to reflect more accurately its original composition. Keller's remarkable acquisition of language is presented here in three successive accounts: Keller's own version; the letters of "teacher" Anne Sullivan, submerged in the earliest edition; and the valuable documentation by their young assistant, John Macy. Including opening and closing commentary by Shattuck and notes by Hermann, this volume will stand for years as the definitive edition of a classic work.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Roger Shattuck, author of Forbidden Knowledge and Proust's Way, has won the National Book Award. He lives in Vermont.

Dorothy Hermann is the author of Helen Keller: A Life. She lives in New Hope, Pennsylvania, and New York City.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0393057445
• ISBN 13: 9780393057447
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 471
• Herausgeber: Shattuck Roger, Herrmann Dorothy
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