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The Diary of a Young Girl

Anne Frank

Start date: February 1, 2016

Finish date: February 29, 2016

Discussion: New School Classics- 1915-2005

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Sep 04, 2007 spoko rated it it was amazing

Shelves: non-fiction, race, memoir

It seems cold even to be rating a book like this. But here we go. Anne was a very good writer. I hadn’t realized until an online discussion on this book that the Diary is actually a revised version of her diary—she intended to submit it for some kind of publication after the war. But in any case, she had some real talent. Obviously the significance of the book speaks for itself. But what I was surprised by was how thought-provoking it was beyond the issue of the Holocaust. There’s a lot here abo ...more

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Apr 21, 2007 Suvi rated it really liked it

Shelves: _book-shelf, misc, history, war, 1940-1969, _europe-western

Story about an ordinary girl who gets caught up with one of the most terrible things in the world - war.

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Aug 05, 2007 Jennifer rated it it was amazing

Shelves: non-fiction, classics

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Dec 27, 2007 ★ K ★ [In a slump but still here!] rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: studied-at-school, from-childhood, biographies-and-memoirs, history, owned, classics, coming-of-age, war, non-fiction, history-holocaust-and-wwii