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THE DIARY OF A YOUNG GIRL : THE DEFINITIVE EDITION Anne Frank Edited by Otto H. Frank and Mirjam Pressler Translated by Susan Massotty -- : -BOOK FLAP Anne Frank's The Diary of a Young Girl is among the most enduring documents of the indestructable nature of the human spirit. twentieth century. Since its publication in 1947, it has been read by tens of millions of people all over the world. It remains a beloved and deeply admired testament to the Restore in this Definitive Edition are diary entries that had been omitted from the the fact that Anne was first and foremost a teenage girl, not a remote and flawless symbol. She fretted about, and tried to copie with, her own emerging sexuality. Like

original edition. These passages, which constitute 30 percent more material, reinforce many young girls, she often found herself in disagreement with her mother. And like ever.

any teenager, she veered between the carefree nature of a child and the full-fledged

sorrow of an adult. Anne emerges more human, more vulnerable, and more vital than Anne Frank and her family, fleeing the horrors of Nazi occupation, hid in the back of

an Amsterdam warehouse for two years. She was thirteen when the family went into the Secret Annex, and in these pages she grows to be a young woman and a wise observer of human nature as well. With unusual insight, she reveals the relations between eight people living under extraordinary conditions, facing hunger, world, and above all, the boredom, the petty misunderstandings, and the frustrations of living under such unbearable strain, in such confined quarters. ever-present threat of discovery and death, complete estrangement from the outside the

A timely story rediscovered by each new generation, The Diary of a Young Girl stands without peer. For both young readers and adults it continues to bring to life this young woman, who for a time survived the worst horror of the modern world had seen For those who know and love Anne Frank, The