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The Works of Anne Frank

by Anne Frank · 2003

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Revised and expanded version of the Critical Edition, originally published in 1986. A complete collection of Anne Frank's known writings — different versions of her diary (as well as five recently discovered diary pages), fables, personal reminiscences and her unfinished novel, Cady's Life. Also includes a summary of the document examination and handwriting identification analysis completed in 1986 by the Netherlands State Forensic Science Laboratory. Every aspect of the diary—including Anne's handwriting and the paper used—is examined.

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This book allows readers to compare the three versions of the diary itself: Anne's original entries; the diary as she herself edited it in the hiding place of the "Secret Annex"; and the version most popularly known, as edited by Anne's father, Otto Frank, and a Dutch publishing house after World War II, when they removed certain family and sexual references.

The book also includes biographical information on the Frank family and a summary of critical events during and after the family's arrest—including how the Nazi authorities learned about the Franks and their secret hiding place.

First published in Dutch in 1986 as De Dagboeken van Anne Frank, by Staatsuitgeverij.

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adult
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medium · 332 pages

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