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The War of the Worlds is a prototypical work of science fiction which has influenced every alien story that has come since, and is unsurpassed in its ability to thrill, well over a century since it was first published. This edition contains a wealth of material about the author's life and works, notes and a bibliographic section.
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Out of print for nearly a century, The World I Live In is Helen Keller's most personal and intellectually adventurous work -- one that transforms our appreciation of her extraordinary achievements. Here this preternaturally gifted deaf and blind young woman closely describes her sensations and the workings of her imagination, while making the provocative argument that the whole spectrum of the senses lies open to her through the medium of language....