About this title: One of the most valuable and informative artifacts of the holocaust, THE DIARY OF A YOUNG GIRL is the actual diary of Anne Frank, a German-Jewish girl living in Amsterdam during World War II. The Diary begins on June 14, 1942, shortly after Anne's 13th birthday. While initial entries focus on Anne's life at school and her relationships with her ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Modern Library, New York
Date Published: 1952
Description: Good in good dust jacket. Very Good, In very good dust jacket. 285 p. 19 cm. Translation of Het achterhuis. Ex-Library expected imperfections. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Anchor Books
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780385480338ISBN:0385480334
Description: Fair. No dust jacket as issued. no rips or tears on pages, tight binding, tanning on pages, last 3rd of pages have significant staining, cover shows wear with bumped cornes, bent edges, few creases, Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 346 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. read more
Description: Good. Good Anchor Books, "The Definitive Edition", Edited by Otto H. Frank and Mirjam Pressler, translated by Susan Massotty, very good condition, pgs are excellent and clean, cover shows minor scuffs from reader wear and shelving. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Bantam
Date Published: 1993
ISBN-13:9780553296983ISBN:0553296981
Description: Acceptable. Overall below average used book. May have highlighting, underlining, notes, price sticker on cover, or be an ex-library book. read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Bantam
Date Published: 1997
ISBN-13:9780553577129ISBN:0553577123
Description: Acceptable. Overall below average used book. May have highlighting, underlining, notes, price sticker on cover, or be an ex-library book. read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Bantam
Date Published: 1997
ISBN-13:9780553577129ISBN:0553577123
Description: Good. Moderate cover wear with scuffing to edges and creasing. Age toning. GoodwillnyBooks is committed to providing each customer with the highest standard of customer service. You may return new items within 30 days of delivery for a full refund. read more
"There were parts of this book that I found really disturbing, if only because it recalled to my mind very vividly what it was like to be a teenager. The discomfort of it, especially. The mortification of feeling totally misunderstood. The embarassment of looking back and seeing how cocky that you were. It is amazing that the writings of a child so bursting with vitality and growing so rapidly would have been penned and polished inside a pratical prison.
Then there is the very last page. It is not the end of a typical story. There is not a real sense of closure. You are taken in by Anne's charms, and bored by her whining as if she was the "girl next door" (or even yourself 20 years earlier) And then she is gone. The Gestapo comes and sweeps them all away to die in concentration camps. (All except Otto Frank, Anne's father)
I found myself frustrated by her death a month before liberation for days afterwards... Chris Jr. was mostly annoyed by Anne generally. I think that we should have read the Autobigraphy of Frederick Douglass instead. (That was the other book we could have chosen for school -- but Chris really wanted this one.)
I learned within the last few days that Nelson Mandela and his fellow prisoners said that they read Anne Frank's diary when they were in prison and it inspired them very much. I was surprised by its varied effects on me as I read it."
"Discovered in the secret annex in which she spent the last years of her life, Anne Frank's remarkable diary has since become a world classic -- a powerful reminder of the horrors of war and an eloquent testament to the human spirit. In 1942, with Nazis occupying Holland, a thirteen-year-old Jewish girl and her family fled their home in Amsterdam and went into hiding. For the next two years, until their whereabouts were betrayed to the Gestapo, they and another family lived cloistered in the "Secret Annex" of an old office building. Cut off from the outside world, they faced hunger, boredom, the constant cruelties of living in confined quarters, and the ever-present threat of discovery and death. In her diary Anne Frank recorded vivid impressions of her experiences during this period. By turns thoughtful, moving, and amusing, her account offers a fascinating commentary on human courage and frailty and a compelling self-portrait of a sensitive and spirited young woman whose promise was tragically cut short.
I've read this probably dozen times since I was 13 and each time it has a huge impact. This is such a candid look at the holocaust and and just an inside look at what it was like to live in Nazi-Germany. I always find it amazing that an innocent girl like Anne can go through so much pain and hardship and still "truly believe that people are really good at heart.""
"Throughout the reading of this diary, I kept wishing the world could have known Anne Frank as the gifted writer she was already becoming. Whether she felt fear, hope, love, exasperation or flashes of joy, she made me feel them. My children read this diary in high school. I am grateful to have read it as an older adult and suggest it is worth a re-read every few years. It shows the indomitability of the human spirit."
"If only every teenager would read and embrace this story, I wonder if it would change the instant-gratification, me-me-me society that has evolved over the last 50 years? Of course, this novel is a staple in any Holocaust lesson planning. In a world in which so few teenagers (or adults, for that matter) seem to stop and give thanks for what they have (instead chirping about what they want or complaining about what they don't have), Anne Frank faced the most unfair of cruelties with a certain strength and grace that crushes nearly any "problem" kids or adults face. Many Holocaust books or movies make you think, "Why?! Why did this happen?!" This story makes me think, "How? How did Anne Frank find the strength to keep her head and record her thoughts during such an unbelievably difficult time?" In a world desperate for heroes and tired (though indelibly enamored by) spoiled athletes, stories like this are once-in-a-lifetime. Hats off to Anne Frank. She had dreams of becoming famous and, although it was for reasons she never would have imagined, at least that part of her dream became true. I appreciate how this story makes my students of all learning levels and backgrounds rethink what they thought they knew about sacrifices and challenges, and even gets some students thinking about how they can use their lives to make a positive difference for others."
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