$25.32
- Paperback
384 pages
- Release Date
29 January 2014
Summary
70th Anniversary Edition
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 when she went into the secret annexe, Anne kept a diary in which she confided her innermost thoughts and feelings, movingly revealing how the eight people living under these extraordinary conditions coped with the daily threat of discovery and death, being cut off from the outside worl…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241952436 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0241952433 |
| Author: | Anne Frank |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Edition: | Definitive edition |
| Release Date: | 29 January 2014 |
| Weight: | 222g |
| Dimensions: | 23mm x 111mm x 180mm |
| Audience Age: | 12-17 |
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Critics Review
A modern classic … Anne’s diary tells a story that is true, memorable, important and strongly personalized … compelling reading
A modern classic … Anne’s diary tells a story that is true, memorable, important and strongly personalized … compelling reading * The Times *
Rings down the decades as the most moving testament to the persecution of innocence * Daily Mail *
Anne Frank’s diary is one of the greatest books of the century … As she brings herself and her circumstances into such buzzing, engaged life on the page, she triumphs over her history. We return to her again and again, unable to believe that this hymn to life was written on the way to Belsen * Guardian *
Anne Frank
Anne Frank was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany in 1929. She is the author of The Diary of a Young Girl, which tells the remarkable true story of a young, Jewish girl against the backdrop of the horrors of the Second World War. Adolescent preoccupations and emotions are recorded alongside the growing powers of the Nazis and their imposition of Anti-Jewish Laws to create a compelling, poignant insight into family life under Nazi rule.
Anne Frank moved to Holland with her family when the Nazis became powerful in Germany. The Nazis believed that some races, such as Jews and gypsies, did not deserve the right to live, and they started to arrest, transport, and kill them. Afraid for their lives, Anne and her family went into hiding. During this terrible time in hiding, Anne was growing from a young girl into a woman, and she recorded her thoughts and experiences in a diary: the constant fear of discovery, the conflicts with her mother, her emerging sexuality, and her hopes for the future. As the diary progresses, Anne’s childish innocence is replaced by premature wisdom and reflection; she not only expresses her concerns with their personal sufferings but also political events unfolding far from their hiding place.
The family hid in the Secret Annexe at the back of a warehouse from July 1942. Ultimately, the work of their protectors was undermined by the actions of Nazi collaborators and spies. In August 1944, they were discovered and taken to concentration camps.
Anne died of typhus in 1945, imprisoned at Bergen-Belsen, just a few months before her sixteenth birthday. Her diary, written between 12 June 1942 and 1 August 1944, was found after the war and later published by her father, Otto H. Frank, the only surviving member of the family. It has become a bestseller throughout the world and is an extraordinary piece of writing from such a young girl, detailing her emotional transformation from childhood to adolescence and reminding us of the horror of prejudice and persecution.
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