Books readed by helen
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Some poems read by Helen Keller:
Intimations of Immortality by William Wordsworth
The Shepherd of King Admetus by James Russel Lowell
The Chambered Nautilus by Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Lady of the Lake by Sir Walter Scott
The Vision of Sir Launfal by James Russel Lowell
In Memoriam by Alfred Lord Tennyson
Tintern Abbey by William Wordsworth
The Iliad by Homer
The Aeneid by Aeneas
Ode to the John Hopkins University by Sidney Lanier
Evangeline by Henry Wordsworth Longfellow
The Cathedral by James Russel Lowell
Samson Agonisters by John Milton
Break, Break, Break by Alfred Lord Tennyson
Laus Deo by John Greenleaf Whittier
Lied von der Glocke by Friedrich Schiller
Der Taucher by Friedrich Schiller
Note: she made reference to these poems in her autobiography ‘The Story of My Life'.
Some books read by Helen Keller:
Bible
Heaven and Hell by Emanuel Swedenborg
The Gallic Wars by Julius Caesar
American Notes by Charles Dickens
Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse by Anna Sewell
Little Lord Fauntleroy by Frances Hodgson Bernett
The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle
Fables by La Fontaine
Le Medicin malgre lui by Moliere
Athalie by Jean Racine
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving (it's a short story, not a book)
Life of Samuel Johnson by Thomas Babington Macaulay
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
Wild Animals I Have Known by Ernest Thompson Seton
The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan
Tales from Shakespeare by Charles Lamb and Mary Lamb
Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving (short story)
The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain
Baddeck, and That Sort of Thing by Charles Dudley Warner
Wilhem Tell by Friedrich Schiller
Die Harzreise by Heinrich Heine
Aus dem Staat Friedrichs des Grossen by Gustav Freytag
Der Fluch der Schonheit by Wilhelm Heinrich Riehl
Minna von Barnhelm by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Aus meinem Leben: Dichtung and Wahrheit by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Shakespeare's plays (original ones)
Wonder Book by Nathaniel Hawthorne
A Child's History of England by Charles Dickens
The Arabian Nights
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Heidi by Johanna Spyri
A Short History of the English People by John Richard Green
History of Europe by Edward Augustus Freeman
An Introduction to the Study of the Middle Ages (375 to 814) by Ephraim Emerton
Outlines of the World's History by William Swinton
Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The Ascent of Man by Henry Drummond