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The diary as Anne Frank wrote it. At last, in anew translation, this definitive edition containsentries about Anne's burgeoning sexuality andconfrontations with her mother that were cut fromprevious editions. Anne Frank's The Diary of aYoung Girl is among the most enduringdocuments of the twentieth century. Since itspublication in 1947, it has been a beloved and deeplyadmired monument to the indestructible nature of thehuman spirit, read by millions of people andtranslated into more than fifty-five languages.Doubleday, which published the first English translationof the diary in 1952, now offers a new translationthat captures Anne's youthful spirit and restoresthe original material omitted by Anne's father,Otto -- approximately thirty percent of the diary.The elder Frank excised details about Anne'semerging sexuality, and about the often-stormy relationsbetween Anne and her mother. Anne Frank and herfamily, fleeing the horrors of Nazi occupationforces, hid in the back of an Amsterdam office buildingfor two years. This is Anne's record of that time.She was thirteen when the family went into the Secret Annex, and in these pages, she growsto be a young woman and proves to be an insightfulobserver of human nature as well. A timeless storydiscovered by each new generation, TheDiary of a Young Girl stands without peer.For young readers and adults, it continues tobring to life this young woman, who for a timesurvived the worst horrors the modern world had seen -- andwho remained triumphantly and heartbreakinglyhuman throughout her ordeal.
