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The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition Hardcover – Illustrated, 1 Mar. 1995

by Anne Frank (Author), Otto H Frank (Editor), Mirjam Pressler (Editor),
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The diary as Anne Frank wrote it: "The single most compelling personal account of the Holocaust ... remains astonishing and excruciating" (The New York Times Book Review).

In a modern translation, this definitive edition contains entries about Anne's burgeoning sexuality and confrontations with her mother that were cut from previous editions. Anne Frank's The Diary of a Young Girl is among the most enduring documents of the twentieth century. Since its publication in 1947, it has been a beloved and deeply admired monument to the indestructible nature of the human spirit, read by millions of people and translated into more than fifty-five languages. Doubleday, which published the first English translation of the diary in 1952, now offers a new translation that captures Anne's youthful spirit and restores the original material omitted by Anne's father, Otto--approximately thirty percent of the diary. The elder Frank excised details about Anne's emerging sexuality, and about the often-stormy relations between Anne and her mother.

Anne Frank and her family, fleeing the horrors of Nazi occupation forces, hid in the back of an Amsterdam office building for two years. This is Anne's record of that time. She was thirteen when the family went into the "Secret Annex," and in these pages, she grows to be a young woman and proves to be an insightful observer of human nature as well. A timeless story discovered by each new generation, The Diary of a Young Girl stands without peer. For young readers and adults, it continues to bring to life this young woman, who for a time survived the worst horrors the modern world had seen--and who remained triumphantly and heartbreakingly human throughout her ordeal.

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    352 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Doubleday Books
  4. Publication date
    1 Mar. 1995
  5. Reading age
    14 - 17 years
  6. Dimensions
    15.14 x 3.1 x 21.67 cm
  7. ISBN-10
    0385473788
  8. ISBN-13
    978-0385473781
  9. Lexile measure
    1020L
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"A truly remarkable book."
--The New York Times

"One of the most moving personal documents to come out of World War II."
--The Philadelphia Inquirer

"The new edition reveals a new depth to Anne's dreams, irritations, hardship, and passions. . . . There may be no better way to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the end of World War II than to reread The Diary of a Young Girl, a testament to an indestructible nobility of spirit in the face of pure evil."
--Chicago Tribune

"The single most compelling personal account of the Holocaust . . . remains astonishing and excruciating."
--The New York Times Book Review

"How brilliantly Anne Frank captures the self-conscious alienation and naïve self-absorption of adolescence."
--Newsday

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The diary as Anne Frank wrote it. At last, in a new translation, this definitive edition contains entries about Anne's burgeoning sexuality and confrontations with her mother that were cut from previous editions. Anne Frank's "The Diary of a Young Girl is among the most enduring documents of the twentieth century. Since its publication in 1947, it has been a beloved and deeply admired monument to the indestructible nature of the human spirit, read by millions of people and translated into more than fifty-five languages. Doubleday, which published the first English translation of the diary in 1952, now offers a new translation that captures Anne's youthful spirit and restores the original material omitted by Anne's father, Otto -- approximately thirty percent of the diary. The elder Frank excised details about Anne's emerging sexuality, and about the often-stormy relations between Anne and her mother. Anne Frank and her family, fleeing the horrors of Nazi occupation forces, hid in the back of an Amsterdam office building for two years. This is Anne's record of that time. She was thirteen when the family went into the "Secret Annex," and in these pages, she grows to be a young woman and proves to be an insightful observer of human nature as well. A timeless story discovered by each new generation, "The Diary of a Young Girl stands without peer. For young readers and adults, it continues to bring to life this young woman, who for a time survived the worst horrors the modern world had seen -- and who remained triumphantly and heartbreakingly human throughout her ordeal.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Doubleday Books; Illustrated edition (1 Mar. 1995)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 352 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0385473788
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0385473781
  • Reading age ‏ : ‎ 14 - 17 years
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 15.14 x 3.1 x 21.67 cm
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    Annelies Marie Frank (German pronunciation: [ʔanəliːs maˈʁiː ˈʔanə ˈfʁaŋk]; Dutch pronunciation: [ʔɑnəˈlis maːˈri ˈʔɑnə ˈfrɑŋk]; 12 June 1929 - February 1945) was a German-born diarist and writer. She is one of the most discussed Jewish victims of the Holocaust. Her diary, The Diary of a Young Girl, which documents her life in hiding during the German occupation of the Netherlands in World War II, is one of the world's most widely known books and has been the basis for several plays and films.

    Born in the city of Frankfurt, Germany, she lived most of her life in or near Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Born a German national, Frank lost her citizenship in 1941 and thus became stateless. The Frank family moved from Germany to Amsterdam in the early 1930s when the Nazis gained control over Germany. By May 1940, they were trapped in Amsterdam by the German occupation of the Netherlands. As persecutions of the Jewish population increased in July 1942, the family went into hiding in some concealed rooms behind a bookcase in the building where Anne's father worked. In August 1944, the group was betrayed and transported to concentration camps. Anne and her sister, Margot, were eventually transferred to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where they died (probably of typhus) in February or March 1945, just weeks before the camp was liberated in April.

    Otto Frank, the only survivor of the family, returned to Amsterdam after the war to find that Anne's diary had been saved by one of the helpers, Miep Gies, and his efforts led to its publication in 1947. It was translated from its original Dutch version and first published in English in 1952 as The Diary of a Young Girl, and has since been translated into over 60 languages. The diary, which was given to Anne on her thirteenth birthday, chronicles her life from 12 June 1942 until 1 August 1944.

    Bio and photo from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Photo by Unknown photographer; Collectie Anne Frank Stichting Amsterdam (Website Anne Frank Stichting, Amsterdam) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

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Elena Curtis
5.0 out of 5 stars Makes the horror of the Holocaust personal
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 17 May 2012
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I bought this book when I was 15 but I waited until I was 17 to read it. I didn't force myself to wait two years, nor did I not want to read it, I just felt that reading Anne Frank's diary is something that needs to be appreciated; to be felt.
I had just read a couple of books set during WWII and around the topic of the Holocaust ('The Book Thief' and 'The Boy in the Striped Pajamas') and just totally felt it was time to read Anne Frank's diary. And I am so glad I waited because I never would have got so much out of it if I had read it when I was younger and not in the right mindset to read it.

Probably the most poignant thing about this book is not the fact that Anne is in hiding from the Nazis or in danger from being murdered, but that she is a normal teenage girl. She has all the feelings, the thoughts, the emotions that all teenagers - and I at the time of reading - feel so strongly at that age. Whilst reading it you can feel Anne grow up and come of age, and the way her feelings grow and mature as she ages. It is literally the exact same thing I felt during my teenage years. In fact, I felt so similar to Anne I could almost have been reading my own diary - apart from the rather focal Nazi part - and this is what affected me most about the diary. She often refers to "after the war" or "when I am a mother" or "when I have my own house", and these were the things I found particularly heartbreaking because they are things all teenage girls yearn for, and things that were stolen from her in the most cruel way.

Of course, Anne Frank's diary is incredibly important as a cultural record because it tells you so much detail about actual life in Nazi Europe during the early 1940s, and that is history you cannot get from statistics and dates. The Holocaust is so important to learn about because it was such a horror that can never be repeated again, and the story of such an innocent, full-of-life girl reminds us of that.

When you feel you are "of age" (in a sense), you CAN'T not read this book. It has befriended me and haunted me in so many ways. I love Anne and I mourn her, and all the other victims just like her, every time I think about the Holocaust. She is the representative for all the suffering that the Holocaust inflicted, and her diary makes you feel it in such an important way.
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Sofia K.
5.0 out of 5 stars Inspiring and Heartbreaking.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 16 December 2013
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As much as we think we know about the horrors of the war, Anne's diary makes it all too real to bear at times.
While she was not describing the concentration camps, we learn of a different type of sustained suffering through anxiety, fear, terror, hunger, desperation, physical, mental and even verbal imprisonment.

There are many levels to this book, and one cannot escape the contrast between Anne's acute self-criticism and personal struggle in trying to be a "better, more tolerant person" while living under the oppressive shadow of monstrous human deformity.

Anne's questioning the human spirit in every page she writes... the mind of a very young girl searching for answers that most of us don't even bother with the questions in the first place. And with that comes a candid innocence and nativity of a 13, 14 year-old girl.

Pay attention to small details that sometimes reveal things Anne did not write into the diary, such as her father's mental breakdown and her own need of medication to cope with the situation. Things perhaps too painful to verbalise.

Anne was only 14, but gosh, how beautifully she writes! This is an amusing, candid, courageous, philosophical and also mundane diary. I read certain parts more than once just to enjoy her sophisticated ability to play with words, her construction of a story, engaging the reader as if she was writing a novel. Astonishing achievement.

All the more heartbreaking because, as you reach the last few pages, Anne reports the Allies are coming and becomes happier than ever, beaming with hope and belief in the future. Not once, ever, she lets fear overcome hope. Her plans to return to school makes very difficult reading.

I went on to watch a few video interviews of Otto Frank and her half-sister Eva (from Otto's 2nd marriage). Somehow it helped me "escape" the torture of knowing what happened to her, listening her father explain how she "went on living after her death".
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Mandy Speake
5.0 out of 5 stars A must read
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 27 February 2024
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This is a must read for all ages it's the typical writing of a teenager but with heartbreaking content about her time in the attic. Visiting her house is definitely worth it you get to see her actual diary
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Linda Cauchy
5.0 out of 5 stars The Definitive Edition- The Diary of a Young Girl - Anne M. Frank
Reviewed in Canada on 3 May 2024
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What a moving diary. This teenage girl had so much courage, a colourful way of writing, a clear view of the people crammed into the small space they were trapped in and a wonderful positive outlook on life despite the terrible war era she lived in. I say it again, I was moved by Anne Frank's diary.
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Gil
5.0 out of 5 stars Un libro infaltable en el curso de inglés
Reviewed in Mexico on 23 August 2023
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La relación calidad/precio es muy buena. El libro ya lo conocía en español, pero sirve muchísimo en idioma inglés para el aprendizaje de este idioma.
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Gabriel
5.0 out of 5 stars Importante e desafiador.
Reviewed in Brazil on 13 November 2023
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Para quem quer aprender inglês, é indicado!
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Shristi
5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing book
Reviewed in Spain on 27 September 2023
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A very inspiring book. Must to be read by everyone
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A very inspiring book. Must to be read by everyone
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5.0 out of 5 stars The book arrived in time and clean
Reviewed in the Netherlands on 29 June 2023
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Doesn't make sense to review contents of the book on amazon, especially since it's a diary
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