The Story of My Life-X

The Story of My Life by Helen Keller is an inspiring extraordinary autobiographical account of a young girl, is a part of the Optima, Unabridged English Classics brought out by G. Ram Books. This series includes select novels prescribed by the CBSE as 'Long Reading Text' for Classes IX to XII. The Story of My Life, in its unabridged form, is one of the two books introduced by the CBSE for Class X. Helen Keller, a little girl, blind and deaf, fated never to see a face, a tree, a picture, never to hear words or music. She was the first deaf blind person to earn a Bachelor's degree. The Story of My Life was first published in 1903 in the United States of America and its poignant appeal continues to captivate readers Worldwide. The Optima, Unabridged English Classics too are student-centric and go beyond the Classroom. Special care has been taken in designing the book in a manner that brings the theme alive for the reader and create exercises that would help in developing the student's creativity and thinking skills. Salient Features of the Book • Original unabridged text • Meanings of difficult words and phrases in each page • A more comprehensive summary at the end of the chapter • In-text Questions to Ponder Over • End-of-chapter–Assignments based on interpretation, inference, theme, plot and understanding of incidents and characters • Character analysis of the important characters • A brief synopsis of the complete novel for better comprehension • Questions for practice—Theme, plot and character based questions • Questions with solved answers for guidance • Profusely illustrated • Important Quotes All the books in this series have been prepared strictly in accordance with the CBSE guidelines to enable students understand and appreciate some of the great enduring English Classics.