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The Diary of a Young Girl
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics

  • Published: 30/03/2000

  • ISBN: 9780141182759

  • Length: 368  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 16mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 267g

  • RRP: £8.99

The Diary of a Young Girl

  • The Definitive Edition.

  • (Penguin Modern Classics)

  • Anne Frank

  • Elie Wiesel (Introducer)

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Anne Frank's The Diary of a Young Girl is an inspiring and tragic account of an ordinary life lived in extraordinary circumstances that has enthralled readers for generations. This Penguin Modern Classics edition is edited by Otto H. Frank and Mirjam Pressler, translated by Susan Massotty, and includes an introduction by Elie Wiesel, author of Night.

'June, 1942: I hope I will be able to confide everything to you, as I have never been able to confide in anyone, and I hope you will be a great source of comfort and support.'

In Amsterdam, in the summer of 1942, the Nazis forced teenager Anne Frank and her family into hiding. For over two years, they, another family and a German dentist lived in a 'secret annexe', fearing discovery. All that time, Anne kept a diary. Since its publication in 1947, Anne Frank's diary has been read by tens of millions of people. This Definitive Edition restores substantial material omitted from the original edition, giving us a deeper insight into Anne Frank's world. Her curiosity about her emerging sexuality, the conflicts with her mother, her passion for Peter, a boy whose family hid with hers, and her acute portraits of her fellow prisoners reveal Anne as more human, more vulnerable and more vital than ever.

If you enjoyed The Diary of a Young Girl, you might also like Hannah Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil, available in Penguin Classics.

'One of the greatest books of the twentieth century'
Guardian

'A modern classic'
Julia Neuberger, The Times

  • Imprint: Penguin Classics

  • Published: 30/03/2000

  • ISBN: 9780141182759

  • Length: 368  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 16mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 267g

  • RRP: £8.99


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Anne Frank

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

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