The Story of My Life Contributor(s): Keller, Helen (Author) |
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ISBN: 1501070517 ISBN-13: 9781501070518 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: September 2014 * Out of Print * |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Non-classifiable - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs - Biography & Autobiography | Women |
Dewey: B |
Lexile Measure: 1090 |
Physical Information: 0.54" H x 5.98" W x 9.02" L (0.77 lbs) 258 pages |
Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Topical - Physically Challenged - Chronological Period - 1851-1899 - Chronological Period - 20th Century |
Accelerated Reader Info |
Quiz #: 30507 Reading Level: 6.8 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 12.0 |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: It is with a kind of fear that I begin to write the history of my life. I have, as it were, a superstitious hesitation in lifting the veil that clings about my childhood like a golden mist. The task of writing an autobiography is a difficult one. When I try to classify my earliest impressions, I find that fact and fancy look alike across the years that link the past with the present. The woman paints the child's experiences in her own fantasy. A few impressions stand out vividly from the first years of my life; but "the shadows of the prison-house are on the rest." Besides, many of the joys and sorrows of childhood have lost their poignancy; and many incidents of vital importance in my early education have been forgotten in the excitement of great discoveries. In order, therefore, not to be tedious I shall try to present in a series of sketches only the episodes that seem to me to be the most interesting and important. I was born on June 27, 1880, in Tuscumbia, a little town of northern Alabama. The family on my father's side is descended from Caspar Keller, a native of Switzerland, who settled in Maryland. One of my Swiss ancestors was the first teacher of the deaf in Zurich and wrote a book on the subject of their education-rather a singular coincidence; though it is true that there is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his. |
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