The World I Live In: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The World I Live In, credited to Helen Keller, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of The World I Live In, by Helen Keller. Read by Laura Caldwell. The World I Live In by Helen Keller is a collection of essays that poignantly tells of her impressions of the world, through her sense of touch, smell, her imagination and dreams. My hand is to me what your hearing and sight together are to you. In large measure we travel the same highways, read the same books, speak the same language, yet our experiences are different. All my comings and goings turn on the hand as on a pivot. It is the hand that binds me to the world of men and women. The hand is my feeler with which I reach through isolation and darkness and seize every pleasure, every activity that my fingers encounter. With the dropping of a little word from another's hand into mine, a slight flutter of the fingers, began the intelligence, the joy, the fullness of my life. Helen Keller, quoted from her essay, The Seeing Hand (Summary from text and Laura Caldwell)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The World I Live In
• Author credits: Helen Keller
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 17
• Listed recording duration: 2:49:10

Catalogue topics

• essays
• biography
• helen keller
• sense perceptions
• dreams
• imagination

Track guide

1. 00 - Preface — 2:25
2. 01 - The Seeing Hand — 12:03
3. 02 - The Hands of Others — 9:46
4. 03 - The Hand of the Race — 8:51
5. 04 - The Power of Touch — 12:35
6. 05 - The Finer Vibrations — 10:19
7. 06 - Smell, the Fallen Angel — 11:48
8. 07 - Relative Values of the Senses — 5:20
9. 08 - The Five-Sensed World — 7:29
10. 09 - Inward Visions — 9:08
11. 10 - Analogies in Sense Perception — 8:10
12. 11 - Before the Soul Dawn — 7:47
13. 12 - The Larger Sanctions — 10:37
14. 13 - The Dream World — 19:17
15. 14 - Dreams and Reality — 8:38
16. 15 - A Waking Dream — 14:39
17. 16 - A Chant of Darkness — 10:18

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