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书名：The Story of My Life 我的人生故事/我的生活
难度：Lexile蓝思阅读指数1090
作者：Helen Keller海伦·凯勒
出版社名称：Bantam Classics
出版时间：1990
语种： 英文
ISBN：9780553213874
商品尺寸：10.6 x 1.3 x 17.4 cm
包装：平装
页数：222
The Story of My Life《我的人生故事》（《我的生活》），美国著名盲人作家海伦·凯勒处女作，作品一发表，立即在美国引起了轰动，被誉为“世界文学史上无与伦比的杰作”。本书适合各位海伦·凯勒的书迷们或英语学习者阅读。
推荐理由：
1.海伦·凯勒自传作品，展现了其乐观自强的精神，美国中小学励志书籍；
2.原汁原味的美式英语，有利于提高阅读水平；
3.书中收录了较多的信件，书写格式标准，是较好的书信范文。
An American classic rediscovered by each generation, The Story of My Life is Helen Keller’s account of her triumph over deafness and blindness. Popularized by the stage play and movie The Miracle Worker, Keller’s story has become a symbol of hope for people all over the world.
This book—published when Keller was only twenty-two—portrays the wild child who is locked in the dark and silent prison of her own body. With an extraordinary immediacy, Keller reveals her frustrations and rage, and takes the reader on the unforgettable journey of her education and breakthroughs into the world of communication. From the moment Keller recognizes the word “water” when her teacher finger-spells the letters, we share her triumph as “that living word awakened my soul, gave it light, hope, joy, set it free!” An unparalleled chronicle of courage, The Story of My Life remains startlingly fresh and vital more than a century after its first publication, a timeless testament to an indomitable will.
The Story of My Life《我的人生故事》（也译作《我的生活》）是一部自传体的著作，主要分为两部分。前半部分主要讲述了海伦·凯勒因一场疾病失去了视觉、听觉，但在安妮·沙利文老师的耐心教育下学会读书认字、认识世界，并以优秀成绩从哈佛大学毕业，之后成长为著名教育家及作家的故事，传递乐观、自强的海伦精神。后半部分收录了其1887-1901年间的书信集，展示了海伦·凯勒在思想和表达方面的成长过程。
Helen Keller’ triumph over her blindness and deafness has become one of the most inspiring stories of our time. Here, in a book first published when she was young woman, is Helen Keller’s own story- complex, poignant, and filled with love.
海伦·凯勒（Helen Keller 1880-1968），美国作家、教育家、慈善家、社会活动家。1880年6月27日，出生在美国阿拉巴马州塔斯坎比亚；19个月大时因猩红热失去视力和听力；7岁，开始跟随安妮·莎莉文老师学习；1900年秋，考入哈佛大学拉德克利夫女子学院；1904年6月，以优等成绩从哈佛大学毕业，掌握英语、法语、德语、拉丁语和希腊语五种语言，是首位获得文学学士学位的盲聋人；1964年，被授予美国公民高荣誉——总统自由勋章；1965年，入选美国《时代周刊》“二十世纪美国十大英雄偶像”；1968年6月1日，与世长辞，享年87岁。一生共著有14部作品，代表作品：《我生命的故事》《我的人生秘诀：乐观》《假如给我三天光明》《我的老师》《石墙之歌》。
HELEN KELLER was born on June 27, 1880, in Tuscumbia, Alabama. At nineteen months old an acute ilness nearly took her life and left her deaf and blind. At the recommendation of Alexander Graham Bell, her parents contacted the Perkins institute for the Blind in Boston, and Anne Sullivan was sent to tutor Helen. The story of their early years together, and Helen’s remarkable psychological and intellectual growth, is told in The Story of My Life, which first appeared in installments in Ladies’ Home Journal in 1902. With Anne Sullivan, “Teacher,” at her side, Helen Keller graduated from Radcliffe College in 1904, an extraordinary accomplishment for any woman of her time. A women’s-rights activist, a socialist, and a world-famous celebrity, Helen Keller received the Presidential Medal of Freedom and many honorary degrees. Her other books includeThe World I live In(1908), Midstream:My Later Life(1929),Helen Keller’s Journal(1938), andLet us Have Faith(1940). She died in 1968. Her burial urn is in the National Cathedral in Washingtion, D.C.
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 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.
My grandfather, Caspar Keller’s son, “entered” large tracts of land in Alabama and finally settled there. I have been told that once a year he went from Tuscumbia to Philadelphia on horseback to purchase supplies for the plantation, and my aunt has in her possession many of the letters to his family, which give charming and vivid accounts of these trips.
