The Diary of a Young Girl: Definitive Edition

No words to say..

i got this book after hearing about anne frank on youtube and became addicted to learning about her so i got her book when i was 13 the same age that she was when she got her diary, and well it taught me so many important life lessons, anne was a very special girl the way she writes i feel like i was there with her, i could imagine the annex her bedroom, kitchen, bathroom, and peters room. i really wish she couldve seen that even after her death she still made a huge differance in the world and to so many young teenagers.

A very inspiring book. Must to be read by everyone

Doesn't make sense to review contents of the book on amazon, especially since it's a diary

Bad copy poor quality blurry crocked pages

A book that we all must read to realise how valuable life n freedom n peace is. Especially in today's India.

As much as we think we know about the horrors of the war, Anne's diary makes it all too real to bear at times.While she was not describing the concentration camps, we learn of a different type of sustained suffering through anxiety, fear, terror, hunger, desperation, physical, mental and even verbal imprisonment.There are many levels to this book, and one cannot escape the contrast between Anne's acute self-criticism and personal struggle in trying to be a "better, more tolerant person" while living under the oppressive shadow of monstrous human deformity.Anne's questioning the human spirit in every page she writes... the mind of a very young girl searching for answers that most of us don't even bother with the questions in the first place. And with that comes a candid innocence and nativity of a 13, 14 year-old girl.Pay attention to small details that sometimes reveal things Anne did not write into the diary, such as her father's mental breakdown and her own need of medication to cope with the situation. Things perhaps too painful to verbalise.Anne was only 14, but gosh, how beautifully she writes! This is an amusing, candid, courageous, philosophical and also mundane diary. I read certain parts more than once just to enjoy her sophisticated ability to play with words, her construction of a story, engaging the reader as if she was writing a novel. Astonishing achievement.All the more heartbreaking because, as you reach the last few pages, Anne reports the Allies are coming and becomes happier than ever, beaming with hope and belief in the future. Not once, ever, she lets fear overcome hope. Her plans to return to school makes very difficult reading.I went on to watch a few video interviews of Otto Frank and her half-sister Eva (from Otto's 2nd marriage). Somehow it helped me "escape" the torture of knowing what happened to her, listening her father explain how she "went on living after her death".