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The Diary of a Young Girl : The Definitive Edition
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The Diary of a Young Girl : The Definitive Edition Mass market paperbound - 1997

by Frank, Anne

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Anne Frank's extraordinary diary, written in the Amsterdam attic where she and her family hid from the Nazis for two years, has become a world classic and a timeless testament to the human spirit. Now, in a new edition enriched by many passages originally withheld by her father, readers meet an Anne more real, more human, and more vital than ever.

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  • Title The Diary of a Young Girl : The Definitive Edition
  • Author Frank, Anne
  • Binding Mass Market Paperbound
  • Edition Reprint
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 400
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Random House Publishing Group, Westminster, Maryland, U.S.A.
  • Date 1997-02-03
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated
  • Bookseller's Inventory # GRP76407134
  • ISBN 9780553577129 / 0553577123
  • Weight 0.45 lbs (0.20 kg)
  • Dimensions 6.7 x 4.1 x 1.1 in (17.02 x 10.41 x 2.79 cm)
  • Ages 13 to 17 years
  • Grade levels 8 - 12
  • Reading level 1020
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1940's
    • Ethnic Orientation: Jewish
    • Religious Orientation: Jewish
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
    • Theometrics: Secular
    • Topical: Holocaust
  • Library of Congress subjects Frank, Anne, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - Netherlands
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 94041379
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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Summary

Born in the city of Frankfurt am Main in Weimar Germany, Anne frank lived most of her life in or near Amsterdam, in the Netherlands. By nationality, she was officially considered a German until 1941, when she lost her nationality owing to the anti-Semitic policies of Nazi Germany. She gained international fame posthumously following the publication of her diary which documents her experiences hiding during the German occupation of the Netherlands in World War II. The Frank family moved from Germany to Amsterdam in 1933, the same year as the Nazis gained power in Germany. By the beginning of 1940 they were trapped in Amsterdam due to the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. As persecutions of the Jewish population increased in July 1942, the family went into hiding in the hidden rooms of her father Otto Frank's office building. After two years, the group was betrayed and transported to concentration camps. Anne Frank and her sister, Margot, were eventually transferred to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp where they both died of typhus in March 1945. Otto Frank, the only survivor of the family, returned to Amsterdam after the war to find that her diary had been saved, and his efforts led to its publication in 1947. It was translated from its original Dutch and first published in English in 1952 as The Diary of a Young Girl. It has since been translated into many languages. The diary, which was given to Anne on her 13th birthday, chronicles her life from 12 June 1942 until 1 August 1944.

From the publisher

Anne Frank was born in 1929 in Germany. Her family moved to Amsterdam in 1933, and she died in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1945.

Francine Prose is the author of the novels A Changed Man and Blue Angel, which was a finalist for the National Book Award, the guide Reading Like a Writer, and Anne Frank: The Book, the Life, the Afterlife.

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From the jacket flap

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 read by tens of millions of people all over the world. It remains a beloved and deeply admired testament to the indestructible nature of the human spirit. Restored in this Definitive Edition are diary entries that were omitted from the original edition. These passages, which constitute 30 percent more material, reinforce the fact that Anne was first and foremost a teenage girl, not a remote and flawless symbol. She fretted about and tried to cope with her own sexuality. Like many young girls, she often found herself in disagreements with her mother. And like any teenager, she veered between the carefree nature of a child and the full-fledged sorrow of an adult. Anne emerges more human, more vulnerable and more vital than ever.
Anne Frank and her family, fleeing the horrors of Nazi occupation, hid in the back of an Amsterdam warehouse for two years. She was thirteen when she went into the Secret Annex with her family.

First Edition Identification

Doubleday & Company Inc published the First Edition, First Printing in Garden City, New York, 1952. The edition was translated by B.M. Mooyaart-Doubleday. 

Constellation Books published the First UK Edition, First Printing in London, 1952. The edition is bound in green cloth binding over boards with gilt lettering.


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"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 indestructivle nobility of  spirit in the face of pure  evil."--Chicago Tribune

About the author

ANNE FRANK was born in 1929 in Germany. Her family moved to Amsterdam in 1933, and she died in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1945.

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