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ISBN: 9780812968866
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 09 March 2004
Country: United States
Imprint: Modern Library Inc
Illustration: 17 B&W PHOTOGRAPHS
Contributors:
- Edited by James Berger
Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 22.0mm
Width: 132.0mm
Height: 202.0mm
Weight: 312g
Pages: 400
About the Author
Helen Keller, born in 1880, was the first deaf-blind graduate of Radcliffe College. Later, she became a high-profile socialist, and throughout her life she was a strong advocate for the blind and deaf communities, visiting over thirty-five countries and publishing fourteen books about her experiences, which have been translated into more than fifty languages. She died in 1968. James Berger is associate professor of English at Hofstra University. The author of After the End- Representations of Post-Apocalypse, Berger has been awarded a Charles Phelps Taft Postdoctoral Fellowship by the University of Cincinnati and a research fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities. He is now working on his next book, Those Who Can't Speak. He lives in Connecticut.
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