Anne Frank: The World's Young Adult Literature Classics Collection

Author: (German) Frank Frank, translated by Ning Ying
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Publishing Date: 2006-06-01
Features: There is a girl who should have been a sunny girl, but she couldn’t bask in the sunlight. She should have been a girl in her prime, but she couldn’t “bloom” in her blooming season. At the age of twelve or thirteen, she was deprived of the freedom to walk in the sunlight by the German fascists. This girl is Anne Frank. The Diary of a Young Girl records her heart’s journey from her 13th birthday in 1942 to the day she was discovered by the Nazi SS in August 1944, covering her life from 13 to 15 years old. A budding flower withered, and a youthful life was cut short, yet she left the world a precious legacy—the diary she wrote in an isolated secret annex. It is a true record of Nazi crimes and a passionate call for humanity, peace, and tranquility. After the war, the diary was published and became one of the most influential and widely read works of the 20th century literature. A sixteen-year-old girl, with her greatest wish to become a journalist and writer, died in a Nazi concentration camp at the height of her youth due to the evil war launched by Hitler. The diary records the life and emotions of Anne hiding in the secret annex for two years before her death. As a growing teenager, she revealed in her diary the conflicts and confusion with her mother, as well as her curiosity about sex. In the harsh social environment of racial discrimination and wartime persecution, the life in the concealed and terrifying secret annex deeply moved every reader with her simple and fluent writing. Therefore, The Diary of a Young Girl is not only a unique personal expression of the inner world of a growing teenager but also an eyewitness account of the suffering of the people under German occupation.