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Anne Frank: The Collected Works
The complete, authoritative edition of Anne Frank's writings, including her diary in both the 'A' and 'B' versions now in continuous form, her further writings and important contextual essays
Anne The Collected Works brings together for the first time Anne's world-famous diary, in both the version edited for publication by her father and the more revealing original, together with her letters, essays and important contextual scholarship. Supported by the Anne Frank Foundation in Basel, Switzerland, set up by Otto Frank to be the guardian of Anne's work, this is a landmark publication marking the anniversary of 90 years since Anne's birth in 1929.
Anne Frank is one of the most recognized and widely read figures of the Second World War. Thousands of people visit the Anne Frank House on the Prinsengracht in Amsterdam each year to see the annex where Anne and her family hid from the Germans before eventually being deported to Auschwitz in 1944. Only Anne's father, Otto, survived the Holocaust.
An essential book for scholars and general readers alike, The Collected Works includes Anne Frank's complete writings, together with important images and documents that tell the wider story of her life. Also included are background essays by notable historians and scholars--including "Anne Frank's Life"; "The History of the Frank Family", "the Publication History of Anne Frank's diary"--and photographs of the Franks and the other occupants of the annex.
Anne The Collected Works brings together for the first time Anne's world-famous diary, in both the version edited for publication by her father and the more revealing original, together with her letters, essays and important contextual scholarship. Supported by the Anne Frank Foundation in Basel, Switzerland, set up by Otto Frank to be the guardian of Anne's work, this is a landmark publication marking the anniversary of 90 years since Anne's birth in 1929.
Anne Frank is one of the most recognized and widely read figures of the Second World War. Thousands of people visit the Anne Frank House on the Prinsengracht in Amsterdam each year to see the annex where Anne and her family hid from the Germans before eventually being deported to Auschwitz in 1944. Only Anne's father, Otto, survived the Holocaust.
An essential book for scholars and general readers alike, The Collected Works includes Anne Frank's complete writings, together with important images and documents that tell the wider story of her life. Also included are background essays by notable historians and scholars--including "Anne Frank's Life"; "The History of the Frank Family", "the Publication History of Anne Frank's diary"--and photographs of the Franks and the other occupants of the annex.
733 pages, Hardcover
Published June 25, 2019
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Annelies Marie Frank was a German-born Jewish girl who kept a diary documenting her life in hiding amid Nazi persecution during the German occupation of the Netherlands. A celebrated diarist, Frank described everyday life from her family's hiding place in an Amsterdam attic. She gained fame posthumously and became one of the most-discussed Jewish victims of the Holocaust 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. In 1934, when she was four-and-a-half, Frank and her family moved to Amsterdam in the Netherlands after Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party gained control over Germany. By May 1940, the family was trapped in Amsterdam by the German occupation of the Netherlands. Frank lost her German citizenship in 1941 and became stateless. Despite spending most of her life in the Netherlands and being a de facto Dutch national, she never officially became a Dutch citizen. As persecutions of the Jewish population increased in July 1942, the family went into hiding in concealed rooms behind a bookcase in the building where Frank's father, Otto Frank, worked. The hiding place is notably referred to as the "secret annex". Until the family's arrest by the Gestapo on 4 August 1944, Frank kept and regularly wrote in a diary she had received as a birthday present in 1942.
Following their arrest, the Franks were transported to concentration camps. On 1 November 1944, Anne Frank and her sister, Margot, were transferred from Auschwitz to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where they died (presumably of typhus) a few months later. They were estimated by the Red Cross to have died in March, with Dutch authorities setting 31 March as the official date. Later research has alternatively suggested that they may have died in February or early March.
Otto, the only Holocaust survivor in the Frank family, returned to Amsterdam after World War II to find that Anne's diary had been saved by his secretaries, Miep Gies and Bep Voskuijl. Moved by his daughter's repeated wishes to be an author, Otto Frank published her diary in 1947. It was translated from its original Dutch version and first published in English in 1952 as The Diary of a Young Girl, and has since been translated into over 70 languages.
Annelies Marie Frank was a German-born Jewish girl who kept a diary documenting her life in hiding amid Nazi persecution during the German occupation of the Netherlands. A celebrated diarist, Frank described everyday life from her family's hiding place in an Amsterdam attic. She gained fame posthumously and became one of the most-discussed Jewish victims of the Holocaust 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. In 1934, when she was four-and-a-half, Frank and her family moved to Amsterdam in the Netherlands after Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party gained control over Germany. By May 1940, the family was trapped in Amsterdam by the German occupation of the Netherlands. Frank lost her German citizenship in 1941 and became stateless. Despite spending most of her life in the Netherlands and being a de facto Dutch national, she never officially became a Dutch citizen. As persecutions of the Jewish population increased in July 1942, the family went into hiding in concealed rooms behind a bookcase in the building where Frank's father, Otto Frank, worked. The hiding place is notably referred to as the "secret annex". Until the family's arrest by the Gestapo on 4 August 1944, Frank kept and regularly wrote in a diary she had received as a birthday present in 1942.
Following their arrest, the Franks were transported to concentration camps. On 1 November 1944, Anne Frank and her sister, Margot, were transferred from Auschwitz to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where they died (presumably of typhus) a few months later. They were estimated by the Red Cross to have died in March, with Dutch authorities setting 31 March as the official date. Later research has alternatively suggested that they may have died in February or early March.
Otto, the only Holocaust survivor in the Frank family, returned to Amsterdam after World War II to find that Anne's diary had been saved by his secretaries, Miep Gies and Bep Voskuijl. Moved by his daughter's repeated wishes to be an author, Otto Frank published her diary in 1947. It was translated from its original Dutch version and first published in English in 1952 as The Diary of a Young Girl, and has since been translated into over 70 languages.
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December 13, 2019
5 full stars! I couldn’t recommend this book more highly although I recommend additional Anne Frank books too.
This is a wonderful book. I just happened to see it on my library branch’s shelf. Copies are still available on the shelf and very few people on Goodreads have rated/reviewed it. That’s a shame. Readers who haven’t read the diary or who have but want to read more this is the book I’d recommend. There are other books about Anne Frank that are also worth reading but this is a good place to start.
It is big though, and very heavy. I wasn’t willing to carry it around with me and even at home, reading as I do half lying down with books resting on my chest, it wasn’t all that comfortable. It was completely worth it to read it though. If I wasn’t having to get rid of books and could buy books I’d likely buy this one. In my opinion it is better read over time and not all at once. In order to read & reread it cover to cover I needed over a month. Luckily I was able to renew it for as long as I needed.
Anyone planning to buy The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank for themselves or as a gift, I recommend buying, or borrowing, this complete works edition. The extras (not Anne’s writing) are also great. Essays, photos, additional information, all worthwhile.
My mother introduced me to the diary when I was 11. At that time nobody knew it was abridged. My mother had loved it and was eager to give it to me. I wish it could have been when I was 13 or even 12. I would have appreciated it more the first time I read it. I so wish my mother could have read the definitive version of the diary and this book and so many other great books that have been published since 1965. My review of the (I think originally published) diary is here: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I already have read/own the diary (a few versions) and the Tales from the Secret Annex book, and I think I’d seen all of the photos, and more, but I’d never read the letters, the verses in friendship books, the favourite quotes notebook, the Egypt Book, or all/most of the Background and Context essays, nor I had seen all of the contents included in the Appendix. I enjoyed looking at the family tree.
Reading the diary, given that already know about when Anne died, the date they were arrested, the date of the last diary entry, etc. as I look at the dates of the diary entries I know what Anne didn’t know and I find that disconcerting. Thinking: In a year they’ll be arrested, in a year she’ll be dead, etc.
I’d been planning to read just the portions I hadn’t yet read, but I ended up reading the entire book cover to cover, after first perusing many of the contents throughout the book.
Her work in progress novel “Cady’s Life” was in its early stages, I think, but it’s remarkably good. She was only about fourteen when she was working on it. Naturally, though it is definitely fiction, as with most first novelists, it’s autobiographical.
The book’s Contents:
a preface by the Anne Frank Fonds, Basle
I The Writings of Anne Frank
the definitive edition of the Anne Frank diary
the book Tales and Events from the Secret Annex (with its many contents listed)
Further Wriings:
Letters
Verses in friendship books
The favourite quotes notebook
The Egypt book
II Photos and Documents
III Background and Context
Mirjam Pressler: Anne Frank’s Life
Mirjam Pressler: The History of Anne Frank’s Family
Gerhirschfeld: The Contemporary Historical Context
Francine Prose: The Publication History of Anne Frank’s Diary
IV Appendix
Diary Versions A and B
With Editorial Note, Diary Version A, Diary Version B
Editorial Note
Family Tree: The Franks
Chronology Table
Further Reading
About the Translators
Picture Acknowledgements
Editorial Note
About the Anne Frank Fonds
This is a wonderful book. I just happened to see it on my library branch’s shelf. Copies are still available on the shelf and very few people on Goodreads have rated/reviewed it. That’s a shame. Readers who haven’t read the diary or who have but want to read more this is the book I’d recommend. There are other books about Anne Frank that are also worth reading but this is a good place to start.
It is big though, and very heavy. I wasn’t willing to carry it around with me and even at home, reading as I do half lying down with books resting on my chest, it wasn’t all that comfortable. It was completely worth it to read it though. If I wasn’t having to get rid of books and could buy books I’d likely buy this one. In my opinion it is better read over time and not all at once. In order to read & reread it cover to cover I needed over a month. Luckily I was able to renew it for as long as I needed.
Anyone planning to buy The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank for themselves or as a gift, I recommend buying, or borrowing, this complete works edition. The extras (not Anne’s writing) are also great. Essays, photos, additional information, all worthwhile.
My mother introduced me to the diary when I was 11. At that time nobody knew it was abridged. My mother had loved it and was eager to give it to me. I wish it could have been when I was 13 or even 12. I would have appreciated it more the first time I read it. I so wish my mother could have read the definitive version of the diary and this book and so many other great books that have been published since 1965. My review of the (I think originally published) diary is here: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I already have read/own the diary (a few versions) and the Tales from the Secret Annex book, and I think I’d seen all of the photos, and more, but I’d never read the letters, the verses in friendship books, the favourite quotes notebook, the Egypt Book, or all/most of the Background and Context essays, nor I had seen all of the contents included in the Appendix. I enjoyed looking at the family tree.
Reading the diary, given that already know about when Anne died, the date they were arrested, the date of the last diary entry, etc. as I look at the dates of the diary entries I know what Anne didn’t know and I find that disconcerting. Thinking: In a year they’ll be arrested, in a year she’ll be dead, etc.
I’d been planning to read just the portions I hadn’t yet read, but I ended up reading the entire book cover to cover, after first perusing many of the contents throughout the book.
Her work in progress novel “Cady’s Life” was in its early stages, I think, but it’s remarkably good. She was only about fourteen when she was working on it. Naturally, though it is definitely fiction, as with most first novelists, it’s autobiographical.
The book’s Contents:
a preface by the Anne Frank Fonds, Basle
I The Writings of Anne Frank
the definitive edition of the Anne Frank diary
the book Tales and Events from the Secret Annex (with its many contents listed)
Further Wriings:
Letters
Verses in friendship books
The favourite quotes notebook
The Egypt book
II Photos and Documents
III Background and Context
Mirjam Pressler: Anne Frank’s Life
Mirjam Pressler: The History of Anne Frank’s Family
Gerhirschfeld: The Contemporary Historical Context
Francine Prose: The Publication History of Anne Frank’s Diary
IV Appendix
Diary Versions A and B
With Editorial Note, Diary Version A, Diary Version B
Editorial Note
Family Tree: The Franks
Chronology Table
Further Reading
About the Translators
Picture Acknowledgements
Editorial Note
About the Anne Frank Fonds
December 5, 2019
Her previously unseen work is amazing! I had no idea that her published diary has been edited a lot by her father so was refreshing to read the unedited version with its teenage angst.
October 27, 2021
I read The Diary Of Anne Frank first in high school and then bought myself a paperback version and read it again. I am pretty sure the copy in High School was edited because I am sure I would have remembered Anne Frank’s anatomy descriptions. This is an important book to read and should be a must read to anyone about the Holocaust. I don’t know why but I didn’t realize until reading through this copy that they didn’t stay hidden in the upper rooms. They would roam the whole building and even help out in the office during the day. At night they would sometimes go down and listen to the radio in the office. They also would forget to keep the blinds closed and it was noticed. Who betrayed them and why the bookcase wasn’t latched is still unknown. This book is very big and heavy but worth it.
August 28, 2023
O livro é bem denso, tem muitas partes repetidas e acaba deixando a leitura bem cansativa. Pra quem quer se aprofundar na vida e arte da Anne frank recomendo, para quem só quer saber a história recomendo o diário de Anne frank apenas. No mais, é uma obra boa e trágica na mesma medida
March 30, 2023
این کتاب تو هفته گذشته خوندم و نمیتونستم زمین بزارمش داستان زندگی دو ساله یک دختر ۱۳ ساله یهودی ، زمان جنگ جهانی دوم درهلند بود که دوساله پایانی جنگ همراه خانوادش و دوستان خانوادگیش تو یه ساختمان در خفا زندگی میکرد. نکته ای که خیلی توجه ام جلب کرد تفاوت این آدم ها که۸۰ سال پیش زندگی میکردن با زندگی ماست تو شرایط پر از استرس زمان جنگ که هر لحظه منتظر مرگ بودن به صورت روتین در حال خوندن کتاب شرکت تو دوره های تند نویسی یادگیری زبان های جدید بودن ذهن این انسان ها به خصوص دختر داستان به اون ساختمان محدود نبود اون ها هرروز در حال پیشرفت بودن ولی چرا ما هنوز آنقدر کوته فکر هستیم شاید فرق ما جهانی سوم ها با جوامع پیشرفته در همین هست به جز بحث اصلی داستان که من نمیخوام واردش بشم چون به نظرم بهتر تمرکز روی شخصیت اصلی داستان باشه رشد شخصیتی این آدم که به نظرم برخلاف بقیه آدم ها رو به رشد بود و هرچقدر که بزرگتر شد آرام تر و منطقی تر شد ،نوشته های این دختر از دل جنگ و تاریخ گذشتن و به همه چیز پیروز شدن وهیچ چیزی باعث متوقف شدن ذهنش نشد
بعد از خوندن این کتاب به این نتیجه رسیدم که افکار یک انسان اسلحه اش برای ادامه این زندگی هست
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October 26, 2022
Hola a todos y bienvenidos un día más a mi blog. En esta ocasión vengo a enseñaros un pedazo de libro, en realidad tenéis más fotos del libro en mi cuenta de instagram @liberateleyendo así que os animo a que me sigáis :)
Creo que a estas alturas de la vida todos sabemos quién es Anne Frank, la niña judía que se tuvo que esconder en un desván junto con más personas para que los nazis no los encontraran, ella iba escribiendo todo lo que le pasaba en su diario, y es gracias a eso mucha información la que tenemos sobre lo que tuvieron que vivir, hasta que finalmente pasó lo que pasó.
Este libro supuso un antes y después en mi carrera lectora, por que pase de leer a los cinco a interesarme por otros géneros que sin duda se han convertido en mis favoritos y de los que he leído grandes novelas.
En este libro de nada menos que 900 páginas nos vamos a encontrar de absolutamente todo, desde la historia de Anne, su diario, fotos de ella, de su familia y de sus amigos, también nos encontraremos postales, poemas y también descubriremos un poco del futuro.
Se ha convertido en una joya de mis estanterías, de los libros más preciados que tengo en mi colección y de verdad que os invito a que lo leáis y si vais a una librería no os vayáis sin echarle un ojo porque sé seguro que os va a encantar tanto como a mí.
Y si no habéis leído El Diario de Anne Frank no os lo penséis, además ahora hay mil ediciones super chulas y súper bien de precio, yo lo tengo tan viejo que no descarto comprarme otra edición nueva.
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Creo que a estas alturas de la vida todos sabemos quién es Anne Frank, la niña judía que se tuvo que esconder en un desván junto con más personas para que los nazis no los encontraran, ella iba escribiendo todo lo que le pasaba en su diario, y es gracias a eso mucha información la que tenemos sobre lo que tuvieron que vivir, hasta que finalmente pasó lo que pasó.
Este libro supuso un antes y después en mi carrera lectora, por que pase de leer a los cinco a interesarme por otros géneros que sin duda se han convertido en mis favoritos y de los que he leído grandes novelas.
En este libro de nada menos que 900 páginas nos vamos a encontrar de absolutamente todo, desde la historia de Anne, su diario, fotos de ella, de su familia y de sus amigos, también nos encontraremos postales, poemas y también descubriremos un poco del futuro.
Se ha convertido en una joya de mis estanterías, de los libros más preciados que tengo en mi colección y de verdad que os invito a que lo leáis y si vais a una librería no os vayáis sin echarle un ojo porque sé seguro que os va a encantar tanto como a mí.
Y si no habéis leído El Diario de Anne Frank no os lo penséis, además ahora hay mil ediciones super chulas y súper bien de precio, yo lo tengo tan viejo que no descarto comprarme otra edición nueva.
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October 6, 2019
The definitive collection of Anne Frank's bibliography and biography, covering not just the diary, but different editions, its publishing history, her and her family's history before and after the annex, her schoolwork, her essays, her fiction writings, photos and mementos, and just about every scrap of evidence left behind of her bright, too short life.
March 18, 2024
It's nice to have all of Anne's work in one place. I honestly didn't know she wrote anything other than the diary. Her writing amazes me. It's incredible to know that her dream of becoming a published author came true.
February 18, 2020
So much more than what I first read when I was younger.
June 3, 2022
I always come back to Anne and her diary,
I liked seeing her different writings
I liked seeing her different writings
December 1, 2022
Found this while strolling my alma mater’s book store. One of my former professors had it for his class 🥰 decidedly academic, recommended to my history buffs.
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PLS
Did you know that Anne Frank wrote more than "The Diary of a Young Girl"?
She also wrote "Tales and Events from the Secret Annexe" and "The Egypt Book."
PLS
Did you know that Anne Frank wrote more than "The Diary of a Young Girl"?
She also wrote "Tales and Events from the Secret Annexe" and "The Egypt Book."
July 29, 2023
I had no idea that she was an aspiring writer or that it was her father, the sole family survivor, that honored her wishes to be published.
March 10, 2023
I have read Anne Frank's diary but it was a very long time ago and I think when I was a very young teenager, so I'm sure it was the heavily edited version. It should keep me busy at over 700 pages :D
Enjoyed reading this and interesting to see the differences in the various versions.
Enjoyed reading this and interesting to see the differences in the various versions.
July 26, 2021
É transformador mergulhar na história da Anne e da segunda guerra.
April 19, 2023
Beyond words. It brings a whole new concept to Anne frank a new depth to her personality.
May 4, 2023
Chato, porém muito bem trabalhado e produzido.
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