Anne Frank's Tales from the secret annex

Format:

Book

Title:

Anne Frank's Tales from the secret annex

Uniform Title:

Verhaaltjes en gebeurtenissen uit het Achterhuis. English

Author:

Frank, Anne, 1929-1945.

ISBN:

9780385187152

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication Information:

Physical Description:

vi, 136 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : portrait ; 22 cm

Contents:

Fables and short stories -- Personal reminiscences and essays.

Summary:

Anne Frank's written works other than her diary, collected in a new translation.

Subject(s):

Short stories.

Short stories, Jewish -- Netherlands.

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Added Author:

Manheim, Ralph, 1907-1992

Mok, Michel

Added Title:

Tales from the secret annex.

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Library	Call Number	Status
Searching... Dallas Public Library	921 Frank	Searching... Unknown
Searching... McMinnville Public Library	839.3 Frank	Searching... Unknown
Searching... Newberg Public Library	921 FRANK, ANNE	Searching... Unknown
Searching... Salem Main Library	839.31 Frank 1984	Searching... Unknown

Hiding from the Nazis in the Secret Annexe of an old office building in Amsterdam, a thirteen-year-old girl named Anne Frank became a writer. The now famous diary of her private life and thoughts reveals only part of Anne's story, however. This book completes the portrait of this remarkable and talented young author.
Tales from the Secret Annex is a complete collection of Anne Frank's lesser-known writings: short stories, fables, personal reminiscences, and an unfinished novel. Here, too, are portions of the diary originally withheld from publication by her father. By turns fantastical, rebellious, touching, funny, and heartbreaking, these writings reveal the astonishing range of Anne Frank's wisdom and imagination--as well as her indomitable love of life. Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex is a testaments to this determined young woman's extraordinary genius and to the persistent strength of the creative spirit. From the Paperback edition.

Reviews (1)

Kirkus Review

One of the two notebooks Anne Frank left behind contained her now-famous Diary; the other contained an assortment of fables, stories, and musings--most of which appeared in The Works of Anne Frank (1959). In this new, slender volume, then (barely 100 pages of text), all 29 of those minor pieces are gathered together--eight of them appearing for the first time in hardcover. Among the new items are three charmingly naive attempts at fiction: ""Paula's Plane Trip,"" in which a German girl stows away on a plane during WW I and winds up in Russia for the war's duration; ""Jackie,"" a one-page anecdote about overcoming despair; and ""Cady's Life""--the disjointed tale of a Dutch girl who recovers from a car accident, finds first love, but is then disturbed by the arrival of the Nazis (and the fate of her Jewish friend Mary). The new non-fiction fragments include a few Secret Annex vignettes--two again illustrating the selfishness of the Van Daans, one a record of a typical Sunday in the hiding-place. (""Once we've eaten and washed up, I'm happy because another Sunday is gone."") And the most striking of the reprinted sketches are the gently, sweetly optimistic fairy-tales and parables, occasionally heart-breaking in their earnest simplicity. Still, though Anne Frank's fate and the Diary invest a few of her brief pieces with extra resonance, this remains a very slight collection--and no significant addition to the 1959 Works. Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.

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