Anne Frank's Tales from the secret annexe
Frank, Anne, 1929-19451985
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'To be interrupted just as you are thinking of a glorious future!' This line from Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annexe fully describes the young girl's situation as she hid in the attic from the German occupiers of Amsterdam. Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl was published soon after the war and gave her posthumous international recognition. What are less well known are the short stories, fables, essays and reminiscences which she kept in a separate journal and which are now brought together in one volume, including some pieces newly translated by Ralph Manheim. These 'tales' can only add to our sense of Anne as the personification of the human spirit's ability to live through hell, never bowing to petty and degrading forces. Anne Frank's stories display a real gift. While the question of what she could have given the world had she lives lingers on every page, her courage in showing us her 'secret self' is in its way a partial, heartbreaking answer. With wisdom beyond her years, she used her imagination to give her mind the freedom her body was denied. As her diary is a view of human nature in captivity, so her stories are a view of the human soul flying free.
Main title:
Anne Frank's Tales from the secret annexe / translated by Ralph Manheim and Michel Mok.
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Imprint:
Harmondsworth : Viking, 1985.
Collation:
143p ; 23 cm.
Notes:
Originally published, Garden City, N.Y. , Doubleday, 1984.CIP rev.Originally published: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1984.Translation of, Verhaaltjes en gebeurtenissen uit het Achterhuis beschreven door Anne Frank.
Audience:
sym; syu
ISBN:
06708009889780670800988
Dewey class:
839.3186208920.FRAN839.318920839.3186
LC class:
PT5881.16.R26
Language:
EnglishDutch
Index terms:
Prose in Dutch1900-1945English textsHistoryEnglishSecond World WarWorld War TwoHolocaustNazisJewsAmsterdam20th centuryshort storiesAnne FrankGerman literature
BRN:
242355
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