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 Frank was born in Frankfurt am Main on 12 June 1929 as Annelies Marie Frank, the daughter of Otto and Edith Frank and the younger sister of Margot. She was given a diary as a 13th birthday present and kept it from 12 June 1942 to 1 August 1944, during the period in which she and her family, together with others, hid from anti-jewish Nazi persecution in a small set of rooms above an Amsterdam warehouse. After Anne's arrest and deportation to Auschwitz and later to Bergen-Belsen in 1944, where she would eventually die in early 1945 from typhus, her diary was published by her father, Otto Frank, and became a worldwide bestseller.
A magisterial edition ... one of the virtues of The Collected Works
is that it allows readers to track the evolution of the diary
across its different incarnations ...The Complete Works thus gives
a greatly enriched picture, and, as one reads its pages, one cannot
help thinking of what Anne might have become. * Bart van Es, Author
of The Cut Out Girl, Guardian *
An astonishing volume contextualising the significance of writing
for Anne's spiritual and practical survival, and inscribing her
words in time. * New Statesman *
Reveal[s] the German-born Frank as a complex human being, as much
aware of her own flaws as of those around her * Wall Street Journal
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Anne rewrote her diary with the intention of having it published as
a book, entitled The Secret Annexe (Het Achterhuis). While working
on her diary, she also wrote some short stories, as well as
memories of her school life, and sketches of her family and
friends. Published for the first time in The Collected Works, they
show a fledgling talent [...] We will never know how her writing
would have developed. But the diary [...] is a remarkable literary
achievement. * Times Literary Supplement *
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