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The Diary
by
Anne Frank (1948).
Anne Frank's
extraordinary diary, written in the Amsterdam attic where she and her family
hid from the Nazis for two years, has become a world classic and a timeless
testament to the human spirit. Now, in a new edition enriched by many passages
originally withheld by her father, we meet an Anne more real, more human, and
more vital than ever. Here she is first and foremost a teenage girl—stubbornly
honest, touchingly vulnerable, in love with life. She imparts her deeply secret
world of soul-searching and hungering for affection, rebellious clashes with
her mother, romance and newly discovered sexuality, and wry, candid
observations of her companions. Facing hunger, fear of discovery and death, and
the petty frustrations of such confined quarters, Anne writes with adult wisdom
and views beyond her years. Her story is that of every teenager, lived out in
conditions few teenagers have ever known.
