The Diary of a Young Girl is one of the most celebrated and enduring books of the last century. Tens of millions have read it since it was first published in 1947 and it remains a deeply admired testament to the indestructible nature of the human spirit.
This definitive edition restores thirty per cent if the original manuscript, which was deleted from the original edition. It reveals Anne as a teenage girl who fretted about and tried to cope with her own emerging sexuality and who also veered between being a carefree child and an aware adult.
Anne Frank and her family fled the horrors of Nazi occupation by hiding in the back of a warehouse in Amsterdam for two years with another family and a German dentist. Aged thirteen when she went into the secret annexe, Anne kept a diary. She movingly revealed how the eight people living under these extraordinary conditions coped with hunger, the daily threat of discovery and death and being cut off from the outside world, as well as petty misunderstandings and the unbearable strain of living like prisoners.
The Diary of a Young Girl is a timeless true story to be rediscovered by each new generation. For young readers and adults it continues to bring to life Anne's extraordinary courage and struggle throughout her ordeal.
Annelies Marie «Anne» Frank, más conocida como Anne Frank (Frankfurt, 12 de junio de 1929 - Bergen-Belsen, 12 de marzo de 1945) fue una niña judía nacida en Alemania, célebre por su diario, escrito mientras se encontraba oculta en un desván junto a su familia para evadir la persecución de los nazis durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Los Frank fueron capturados y llevados a distintos campos de concentración alemanes, donde murieron todos salvo el padre, Otto.Anne fue enviada a Auschwitz el 2 de septiembre de 1944 y trasladada posteriormente al campo de Bergen-Belsen. Allí falleció de fiebre tifoidea el 12 de marzo de 1945, días antes de que Holanda fuera liberada.
