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    <body><![CDATA[This is an interesting book in that it exactly fails to answer the question that you wish it would answer: what is it like to be both blind and deaf?  <br/><br/>Of course her education was marvelous and it is amazing that a young woman with those disabilities was able to overcome them and become a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3470874">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have always held Helen Keller in high regard. How can you not, really?  She is a remarkable woman. I did a report on her in grade school, and though I forgot many facts of her life over the years, what I learned of her perseverance and strength of spirit left a lasting impression on me.<br/><br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48410180">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was purely inspirational to me. Helen Keller has some great insights on life that we can all learn from. One of my favorite quotes from her book in Helen's own words: “Is it not true, then, that my life with all its limitations touches at many points the life of the World Beautiful? Ever...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36797644">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The book is educational, historic, somewhat interesting, but as far as great memoirs go, Keller was not a very good writer. Her book is full of purple prose. (If you are unfamiliar with the term, look it up, the term will last you a lifetime.)<br/><br/>She may have been a greatly accomplished acti...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17524679">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Mark Twain once said that the two most fascinating people of the 19th century were Napoleon and Helen Keller. I've yet to read anything on Napoleon but I can feel the fascination with Helen.<br/><br/>This edition was in three parts. The first is a series of installments originally written for the ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16241529">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[My copy of this book is an Andor Classic paperback.  It's quite old and nearly falling apart.  I bought it at a used book sale, as I buy many of my books.  <br/><br/>I thought it was quite interesting.  It's not very long, so it reads very fast.  Helen had that very formal writing style that you s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3044307">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It's part of human nature to ocassionally feel sorry for yourself.  &quot;Why do I have to have it so hard?&quot;  &quot;Why did this have to happen to me?&quot;<br/><br/>But it's hard to feel sorry for yourself when reading Keller's remarkable story.  To paraphrase Faulkner, she didn't just survi...]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I had always admired Helen Keller, and everyone knows about her and hears her quoted, but it was amazing to read her own account of how she acquired language and see how adept she became at using it.  Her insights about education and descriptions of nature and friendship are universally appealing an...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20690395">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This autobiography is a mostly interesting account of Helen Keller's early life and education, written while she was attending college at Radcliffe College.  Portions of this book were a tad boring as Ms. Keller cataloged the books and authors she read and the people she met.<br/><br/>Truly, she a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40683385">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is Helen Keller's own story, written while she was in college, and it is fascinating to see how she viewed her childhood both before and after Anne Sullivan came to teach her. The edition I read also included her letters, beginning with the first ones and it was interesting to see the quick and...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6414317">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Recommended by Rochelle. Thanks!<br/>This was great. How can you not hep but feel uplifted by the power of the human spirit after reading about Helen Keller's life.  I love how she describes her love of nature and how she can feel the moon on her face in the evenings.  The only disappointment was s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18612597">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have always admired Helen Keller. As kids, we read about her life and her accomplishments. As kids, we all said our share of oooohs and wows as our teachers told us about her courage and everything she had to overcome. But reading this autobiography gives one a deeper look into how she felt when s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77635267">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This short autobiography of Helen Keller (written when she was only 22) was compelling and, at times, moving. The fact that her experiences are vastly different from those of my own colors her story telling and brings life to mundane details of life. <br/><br/>Some parts of the story did drag, such ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74784535">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Written when Helen Keller was 22, &quot;The Story of My Life&quot; is about her life as a child and young lady. She was not born blind and deaf, but as a toddler suffered an illness that almost killed her and robbed her of her sight and hearing. Helen was seemingly unteachable and growing wilder eac...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67286507">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[WOW. I highly recomment this amazing book about Helen Keller. Not only is her autobiography compelling and very well-written, but the letters included from Anne Sullivan regarding her teaching Helen and Helen's progress are amazing and incredibly insightful. Anyone seeking an education or seeking to...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47212660">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book comes in 3 parts.  An autobiography.  A collection of letters.  And a section written by Helen's teacher.  The autobiography was my favorite part.  In chapter 2 Helen describes herself as a kid, and she comes across as a smart brat who enjoyed a prank.  I especially liked Helen's bravado a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65836448">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is screaming empowerment.  Helen Keller was able to accomplish more than almost all of us with her twice handicap.  She was involved in the suffrage movement besides.  Her accomplishments are phenomenal. She learned not only how to speak, but how to speak different languages.  Her educatio...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60184721">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a sweet inspiring thin book (100+ pages excluding the Letters portion) and I finished this just in two days. Despite being deaf and blind, she was able to get a good education and helped people who were in the same situation as she was. This autobiography was written by Helen in 1903 but its...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54105413">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I originally began reading this with my 10 year old daughter thinking it was an &quot;easy reader&quot; type autobiography.  That is not the case at all and we quit reading it part way through b/c it was boring for her and too difficult for me to read aloud to her b/c I had to keep stopping to expla...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69220182">more...</a>]]></body>
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