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Helen Keller (Author)

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Publication Date: May 2003

1903. An essay written by the American author and lecturer. Helen Keller was left blind, deaf and mute at the age of nineteen months due to an illness. She spent many years lecturing on behalf of blind and deaf persons, promoting optimism and the brighter side of life. This is one of her essays entailing the optimism within, without and the practice of optimism.

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Helen Keller was left blind and deaf by a terrible disease at the age of 19 months, trapped in a shell of incompehensibility. With the help of Annie Sullivan, she was able to overcome these handicaps and educate herself. Shortly after her autobiography, My Story, appeared in 1900, this book on Optimism was also published. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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Paperback: 80 pages
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing (May 2003)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0766155374
ISBN-13: 978-0766155374
Product Dimensions: 11.1 x 8.2 x 0.2 inches
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COULD we choose our environment, and were desire in human undertakings synonymous with endowment, all men would, I suppose, be optimists. Read the first page

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Letters of John Richard Green by Leslie Stephen on page 21
Omar Khayyam by Harold Lamb on page 59

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