Helen Keller: 20 books

Helen Keller. Nació en 1880, y antes de cumplir dos años de vida perdió la vista y el oído en el transcurso de una enfermedad. "Durante casi seis años", dice, "viví privada del menor concepto sobre la naturaleza o la mente, la muerte o Dios. Puede decirse que pensaba con mi cuerpo,...

This extraordinary account of a young girl's triumph over the challenges of blindness and deafness—and other people's preconceptions—is perhaps the most inspired autobiography ever written.  With the loving help of her teacher, Anne Sullivan, Keller pulls herself from the darkness of fear and ignorance into the light of reason.

Optimism Within C ould we choose our environment, and were desire in human undertakings synonymous with endowment, all men would, I suppose, be optimists. Certainly most of us regard happiness as the proper end of all earthly enterprise. The will to be happy animates alike the philosopher, the prince...

Come walk with me, and I will tell What I have read in this scroll of stone; I will spell out this writing on hill and meadow. It is a chronicle wrought by praying workmen, The forefathers of our nation