Anne Frank

Broschiertes Buch

The Diary of a Young Girl

Beschreibung

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. Since its publication in 1947, it has been a beloved and deeply admired monument to the indestructible nature of the human spirit, read by millions of people and translated into more than fifty-five languages. Doubleday, which published the first English translation of the diary in 1952, now offers a new translation that captures Anne's youthful spirit and restores the original material omitted by Anne's father, Otto -- approximately thirty percent of the diary. The elder Frank excised details about Anne's emerging sexuality, and about the often-stormy relations between Anne and her mother. Anne Frank and her family, fleeing the horrors of Nazi occupation forces, hid in the back of an Amsterdam office building for two years. This is Anne's record of that time. She was thirteen when the family went into the "Secret Annex," and in these pages, she grows to be a young woman and proves to be an insightful observer of human nature as well. A timeless story discovered by each new generation, "The Diary of a Young Girl" stands without peer. For young readers and adults, it continues to bring to life this young woman, who for a time survived the worst horrors the modern world had seen -- and who remained triumphantly and heartbreakingly human throughout her ordeal.

Autor

Annelies Marie Frank was a Jewish girl born in Germany who kept a diary documenting her life in hiding under Nazi persecution during the German occupation of the Netherlands. She is a well-known diarist who wrote about ordinary life from her family's hiding place in an Amsterdam attic. One of the most-discussed Jewish victims of the Holocaust, she gained fame posthumously with the 1947 publication of The Diary of a Young Girl (originally Het Achterhuis in Dutch, lit. "the back house"; English: The Secret Annex), which documents her life in hiding from 1942 to 1944. It is one of the world's best-known books and has been the basis for several plays and films. Frank was born in Frankfurt, Germany in 1929. After Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party took power of Germany in 1934, she and her family relocated to Amsterdam, Netherlands, at the age of four and a half. She lived the majority of her life in and around Amsterdam. By May 1940, the Franks had been besieged in Amsterdam by the German conquest of the Netherlands. Anne lost her German citizenship in 1941 and became stateless. Despite spending the majority of her life in the Netherlands and being a de facto Dutch native, she never obtained Dutch citizenship. As persecutions against Jews worsened in July 1942, they moved into hiding in hidden rooms under a bookcase in the building where Anne's father, Otto Frank, worked.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Pharos Books
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. April 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 337g
• ISBN-13: 9789388720793
• ISBN-10: 9388720792
• Artikelnr.: 60887744