The Diary of a Young Girl - Hardcover

Frank, Anne

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0394604512 ISBN 13: 9780394604510

Publisher: Modern Library, 1978

Synopsis

Anne Frank was born in Frankfurt, Germany, on June 12, 1929. "As we are Jewish, we emigrated to Holland in 1933," Anne writes in her diary, which she received on her thirteenth birthday. In July 1942 she and her family were forced to take refuge with four others in a back apartment in Amsterdam. There they remained until August 4, 1944, when the Grüne Polizei made a raid on the "Secret Annexe" and all the occupants were arrested and sent to German and Dutch concentration camps. In March 1945, two months before the liberation of Holland, Anne died of typhoid in the concentration camp at Bergen-Belsen. Only her father, Otto Frank, survived, and it was he who saw that Anne's diary was published in 1947.

Written with rare insight, humor and intimacy, The Diary of a Young Girl is one of the classics of our time. It has inspired a play and has been a best seller in almost every known language. To hundreds of thousands of people, it represents the true horror and tragedy of the Nazi Occupation.

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Review

A beloved classic since its initial publication in 1947, this vivid, insightful journal is a fitting memorial to the gifted Jewish teenager who died at Bergen-Belsen, Germany, in 1945. Born in 1929, Anne Frank received a blank diary on her 13th birthday, just weeks before she and her family went into hiding in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam. Her marvelously detailed, engagingly personal entries chronicle 25 trying months of claustrophobic, quarrelsome intimacy with her parents, sister, a second family, and a middle-aged dentist who has little tolerance for Anne's vivacity. The diary's universal appeal stems from its riveting blend of the grubby particulars of life during wartime (scant, bad food; shabby, outgrown clothes that can't be replaced; constant fear of discovery) and candid discussion of emotions familiar to every adolescent (everyone criticizes me, no one sees my real nature, when will I be loved?). Yet Frank was no ordinary teen: the later entries reveal a sense of compassion and a spiritual depth remarkable in a girl barely 15. Her death epitomizes the madness of the Holocaust, but for the millions who meet Anne through her diary, it is also a very individual loss. --Wendy Smith

From the Publisher

For almost fifty years, Anne Frank's diary has moved millions with its testament to the human spirit's indestructibility, but readers have never seen the full text of this beloved book--until now. This new translation, performed by Winona Ryder, restores nearly one third of Anne's entries excised by her father in previous editions, revealing her burgeoning sexuality, her stormy relationship with her mother, and more.

About this edition

• Publisher: Modern Library
• Publication date: 1978
• ISBN 10: 0394604512
• ISBN 13: 9780394604510
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 285