The Diary of a Young Girl

Anne Frank

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Feb 1, 1996 - Biography & Autobiography - 352 pages

The basis for and official tie-in edition to the PBS Masterpiece Classic movie titled The Diary of Anne Frank, directed by Jon Jones from a screenplay by Deborah Moggach. First airing April 11, 2010.

More than fifty years after its first publication, Doubleday's definitive edition of Anne Frank's famous diary generated an extraordinary amount of excitement when it was published in early 1995. Enthusiastically received by critics and readers alike, it reigned for nine weeks on The New York Times bestseller list and will remain for all time the version that millions of readers will cherish.In a handsome package with flaps, rough front, and printed endpapers, this Anchor trade paperback will be the perfect gift for anyone who seeks insight into the indestructible nature of the human spirit.

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Review: The Diary of a Young Girl

User Review  - Natalie - Goodreads

The Diary of a Young Girl is the diary of Anne Frank. Anne writes from her own point of view as they live in the Secret Annex in hiding from Hitler and the Nazis. From her first entry to her last, she ...

Review: The Diary of a Young Girl

User Review  - Bethany - Goodreads

I'm not sure why I didn't read this one when I was in middle school, but I finally got around to it, and I'm glad that I did. However, this really was heartbreaking for me to read. The tone in her ...

About the author

Anne Frank was born in 1929 in Germany. Her family moved to Amsterdam in 1933, and she died in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1945.

Francine Prose is the author of the novels A Changed Man and Blue Angel, which was a finalist for the National Book Award, the guide Reading Like a Writer, and Anne Frank: The Book, the Life, the Afterlife.


From the Hardcover edition.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Diary of a Young Girl
• Author: Anne Frank
• Editors: Otto H. Frank, Mirjam Pressler
• Translated by: Susan Massotty
• Edition: illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1996
• ISBN: 0385480334, 9780385480338
• Length: 352 pages
• Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / Historical; Biography & Autobiography / Women; History / Holocaust