The Story of My Life

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Title of ebook: The Story of My Life
ISBN: 9781588362988
parent-ISBN: 9780679642879
Publisher: Random House
Internet download file size: 2093 kb
Published: 04-2003
Released online for download: 04-22-2003
Author of eBook: Keller, Helen
Editor: Berger, James

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The Story of My Life

Chapter One

Chapter I

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 wa ... read full excerpt from The Story of My Life ebook

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