THE DIARY OF A YOUNG GIRL : THE DEFINITIVE EDITION
Anne Frank
Edited by Otto H. Frank and Mirjam Pressler
Translated by Susan Massotty
BOOK FLAP
Anne Franks The Diary of a Young Girl is among the most enduring dots of the tweh tury. Sis 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 iructable nature of the human spirit.
Restore in this Definitive Edition are diary ehat had been omitted from the iion. These passages, which stitute 30 pert 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 copie with, her own emerging sexuality. Like many young girls, she often found herself in disagreement 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 thirteehe family went into the Secret Annex, and in these pages she grows to be a young woman and a wise observer of human nature as well. With unusual insight, she reveals the relatiowee people living under extraordinary ditions, fag huhe ever-present threat of discovery ah, plete estra from the outside world, and above all, the boredom, the petty misuandings, and the frustrations of living under subearable strain, in such fined quarters.
A timely story rediscovered by eaew geion, The Diary of a Young Girl stands without peer. For both young readers and adults it ti to life this young woman, who for a time survived the worst horror of the modern world had seen -- and who remairiumphantly abreakingly human throughout her ordeal.
For those who know and love Anne Frank, The Definitive Edition is a ce to discover her anew. For readers who have not yet entered her, this is the edition to cherish.
ANNE FRANK was born on June 12, 1929. She died while impriso Bergen-Belsen, three months short of her sixteenth birthday. OTTO H. FRANK was the only member of his immediate framily to survive the Holocaust. He died in 1980.
MIRJAM PRESSLER is a popular writer of books for young adults. She lives in Germany.
Translated by Susan Massotty.