The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition of the World’s Most Famous Diary

Anne Frank

Jun 2011 · Penguin UK

About this ebook

THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK IS 'A MONUMENT TO THE HUMAN SPIRIT'

One of the most famous accounts of living under the Nazi regime comes from the diary of a thirteen-year-old Jewish girl, Anne Frank. Edited by her father Otto H. Frank and German novelist Mirjam Pressler, this is a true story to be rediscovered by each new generation.
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12th July 1944:
'It's difficult in times like these: ideals, dreams and cherished hopes rise within us, only to be crushed by grim reality. It's a wonder I haven't abandoned all my ideals, they seem so absurd and impractical. Yet I cling to them because I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart.'

In the summer of 1942, fleeing the horrors of the Nazi occupation, Anne Frank and her family were forced into hiding in the back of an Amsterdam warehouse.

Aged thirteen, Anne kept a diary of her time in the secret annexe. She movingly revealed how the eight people living under these extraordinary conditions coped with hunger, the daily threat of discovery and death and isolation from the outside world.

A thought-provoking record of tension and struggle, adolescence and confinement, anger and heartbreak, the diary of Anne Frank is a testament to the atrocities of the past and a promise they will never be forgotten.
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'One of the greatest books of the century' Guardian

'Rings down the decades as the most moving testament to the persecution of innocence' Daily Mail

'Astonishing and excruciating. Its gnaws at us still' New York Times Book Review

Ratings and reviews

i would like to recommend this book to everyone regardless there age. The diary proves that she was a beautiful writer. she had made her dairy a best friend, she had written everything in it ; liking and disliking things, feelings about others and the things we wants to share with a trusty friend. but the ending make me 😢 sad. but also it gave me idea of dairy writing 📖.

This book can change your perspective ...it will highly influence your personality ...and the amazing thing is that she was only 13 ...well Whatever happened, happened, but Anne's dream of becoming a writer has come true. This is the one of the world's top 10 most read books.

A must read for everyone irrespective of age, gender and nationality. It explores Anne's life in the hiding, her relationship with family, Van Daan, Dussel; her friends in school; her philosophy towards life; teenage curiosity; atrocities of Nazis on those who don't fit in their "Aryan characters", the struggles of everyone (be it a Jew or a non Jew) during the war. I'm thankful to Miep Gies (who safeguarded it after they were discovered and arrested) and Otto Frank for publishing this important historical record of Holocaust.

About the author

Anne Frank was born on 12 June 1929. She died in Bergen-Belsen, three months short of her sixteenth birthday.