The Diary of a Young Girl (also known as The Diary of Anne Frank) is a book of the writings from the Dutch language diary kept by Anne Frank while hiding for two years with her family during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. The family was apprehended in 1944, and Anne Frank died of typhus in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. The diary was retrieved by Miep Gies, who gave it to Anne’s father, Otto Frank, the family’s only known survivor. The diary has since been published in more than sixty languages.
First published under the title The Annex: Diary Notes June 14, 1942-August 1, 1944 by Contact Publishing in Amsterdam in 1947, the diary received widespread critical and popular attention on the appearance of its English language translation Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Doubleday & Company (United States) and Valentine Mitchell (United Kingdom) in 1952. Its popularity inspired the 1955 play The Diary of Anne Frank by the screenwriters Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett, which they adapted for the screen in 1959. The book is included in several lists of the top books of the Twentieth Century.
The copyright of the Dutch version of the diary, published in 1947, expired on January 1, 2016, seventy years after the author’s death as a result of a general rule in copyright law of the European Union. Following this the original Dutch version was made available online.
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Thank you for letting me know and thank you for the compliment. I just love books and love to work with them. I added a new link for "Anne Frank's Diary"; however, this version has many typos, but it's still completely readable because the words are easy to distinguish.
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