Helen Keller — The World I Live In (1908)

Helen Keller answers the question everyone asked her: what is the world like without sight or sound?

In this collection of essays Keller describes how she experiences the world through touch, smell and vibration, from the feel of a friend’s hand to the rhythm of a city street.

It is also a book about imagination and dreams, and about how much of what we call “seeing” happens in the mind. Many readers find it even more remarkable than her autobiography.

Part of the Boston Made Reader’s special collection Courage, Conscience & Service. Every book and document here is free to read.