Anne Frank : : The Diary of a Young Girl the Definitive Edition

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Call Number: Y BOCD 921 Frank, Anne, Kids BOCD / Nonfiction / Biography
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Malletts Creek Branch, Westgate Branch

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Unabridged.
Compact discs.
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.

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

Breathtaking submitted by jduffy12 on August 27, 2016, 2:58pm I can't get over how this really happened. If Anne Frank were still alive she'd be a hero

The importance of the everyday. Good for younger readers. submitted by terpsichore17 on July 16, 2019, 1:12pm I read excerpts of Anne Frank's diary in grade school, but never the whole thing. Having now listened to it on audiobook at age 31, I remain convinced that it's an important book; that said, reading it at a younger age might have been more valuable (say, at 10-16, when grappling with some of the same concerns). Sight-reading would have been preferable also, as being inside anyone's diary for 2 years can get tiresome, no matter whose it is.

The *fact* of the diary's existence is probably the most important thing about it, and the fact that Anne was inspired to keep it/re-copy sections for future readers on account of hearing Bolkestein's radio broadcast about the historical significance of small, everyday objects, is probably my favorite aspect of it.

The sections where she muses on how life will be after the war are the hardest; certainly everyone in the Annex needed that hope to carry on through the months and months of hiding, but those reading know that Anne would never become a journalist or publish more stories than this one.