Post by ashleenahpage on Apr 7, 2008 0:15:42 GMT -5
has anyone read this book?
i haven't read much of it yet but so far it's quite interesting & amazing.
if you haven't this is what it says on the back of the book:
'I want to go on living after my death. And therefore I am grateful to God for giving me this gift...of expressing all that is in me.'
Thirteen-year-old Anne Frank, with her parents and sister and four other people went into hiding in the sealed-off back rooms of an Amsterdam office building in 1942, when the Nazi invaders intensified their persecution of Jews.
For two years they remained safe. In august 1944 they were betrayed. Anee died in the ghastly concentration camp at Belsen. All the other perished too, except her father.
Anne's astonishingly intimate diary was found by accident. With a touch of genius it records the strains of her unusual life, the problems of her unfolding womanhood, her falling in love, her unswerving faith in her religion. And it reveals the shining nobility of her spirit.
Now known and loved the world over through Stage, Screen and TV adaptions, or in translation; this touchingly human document remains timeless in its appeal.
Thirteen-year-old Anne Frank, with her parents and sister and four other people went into hiding in the sealed-off back rooms of an Amsterdam office building in 1942, when the Nazi invaders intensified their persecution of Jews.
For two years they remained safe. In august 1944 they were betrayed. Anee died in the ghastly concentration camp at Belsen. All the other perished too, except her father.
Anne's astonishingly intimate diary was found by accident. With a touch of genius it records the strains of her unusual life, the problems of her unfolding womanhood, her falling in love, her unswerving faith in her religion. And it reveals the shining nobility of her spirit.
Now known and loved the world over through Stage, Screen and TV adaptions, or in translation; this touchingly human document remains timeless in its appeal.
Eleanor Roosevelt (widow of the wartime President of the United States): "A remarkable book...one of the wisest and most moving commentaties on war and its impact on human beings that i have ever read...Reading it is a rich and rewarding experience."
Observer: "Few more moving and impressive books have come out of the War." - Naomi Lewis.
Times Lit. Sup.: "This human document should be read by thousands."
Guardian: "Uncanny penetration about her analysis of personal relationships and a touch of literary genius about her power to describe them."
