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Summary: A Book of Inspiration
Review: I find this book to be very inspiring because this young girl, known as Anne, kept a record of her daily life and became famous. It is very unfortunate that her fame came after her tragic death, but she is still remembered to this present day. I strongly recommend this book to anyone because it is a good example of how our daily lives can bring us good things which can change other peoples' lives as well as your own. This book is mainly about how this young girl Anne Frank lived her life and also dealt with hardships in her life. This book is a reminder that anyone, no matter what the age, can have an impact on the life of others. I think that this book is a good example of how some one can live through such a horrible event, like Anne did during the holocost. I really hope that you decide to read this book after what you have read from me!
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Summary: The fiction of a young girl
Review: I must differ with the opinion of my fellow Lexingtonian. This book is an excellent compilation of Ms. Frank's early prose- a worthy start for a brilliant mind. Her writings are at once both ecstatic and depressing, and touch one's emotions in such a way so as to affect them long after. An essential companion to her famous diary.
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Summary: THIS BOOK IS UTTERLY BRILLANT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: I THOUGHT THIS BOOK WAS EXTREMELY WONDERFUL FOR YOUNG ADULTS. IT WILL TOUCH EVERYONE'S HEART.
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Summary: Great stories and reminicenses from a talented young girl.
Review: I truly enjoyed Anne Frank's Diary, now I have had the privilege to read her tales. A talent in it's purest form. I believe it was Anne Frank who said she wanted to be famous and/or to live on after her death, and of course she has in so many ways. Her diary has sold millions upon millions of copies around the world, her story told in a broadway play, countless films and documentary's.To me it looks like Anne has gotten her wish, she has lived on, more than she'll ever know. I like so many other's have wondered what kind of person Anne Frank would have been if she had survived, of course we will never know, but her diary and her story's were left behind to be discovered and to be told to everyone around the world, what a good person we could have a had on this planet, a great and talented young girl who was taken away but not forgotten.
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Summary: Excellent book!
Review: I was very deep in the book. It made me cry just to think that a human being would do anything to another human being that would put them in harm's way!
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Summary: Stories from a destined writer
Review: If you've read her diary, you must read this book of tales. Anne Frank'scourage and honesty is evident in these stories, as they were in the diary. These tales will make you laugh, maybe even cry. But one thing is for sure, they will remind you of your own experiences. They are full of universal truths...truths that are valid for all people and for all times.
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Summary: Unforgettable stories for young and old alike.
Review: In her now famous Diary, Anne Frank said "I want to go on living even after my death". As of 1998, The Diary of Anne Frank had reached sales of 25 million copies and been translated into more than 50 languages. (source: TIME, October 5, 1998). It has been required classroom reading for half a century now! In a way, her wish has come to pass.
This subsequent publication "Tales From The Secret Annex" combines short stories, reminiscences/vignettes, and even an unfinished novel to show us yet another dimension to this remarkable person. Reading these stories and little essays confirmed my personal opinion that Anne Frank was a childhood genius with unlimited potential to achieve anything she would have set her mind to. It's hard to imagine this thirteen year old girl writing with such depth and perception, while living in seclusion, terror and fear for her life. She was writing from her heart, not with an expectation of being published. And yet these stories shine with a polished brilliance, and a certain unforgettable quality. I read this book for the first time 8 years ago, and have returned to it now, remembering the stories as though I had read them just last week. My favorite is entitled "Kathy". In three short pages, Anne captures every emotion experienced by a kid who is misunderstood by her mother, assaulted by schoolyard bullies who mock and rob her and cause her to lose the gift she was bringing home to her mother.Here is how she ends her essay entitled "Give":
"If only our country and then Europe and finally the whole world would realize that people were really kindly disposed toward one another, that they are all equal and everything else is transitory!
Open your eyes... give of yourself, give as much as you can! And you can always, always give something, even if it is only kindness! No one has ever become poor from giving! If you do this, then in a few generations no one will need to pity the beggar children anymore, because they will not exist!
There is plenty of room for everyone in the world, enough money, riches, and beauty for all to share! God has made enough for everyone. Let us all begin by sharing it fairly." (written March 26, 1944). Anne was sent to Bergen-Belsen, where some time during March 1945, she, her sister Margot and hundreds of other prisoners were stricken with typhus. Their captors, preoccupied with the advancing Allies, left them to die.
World... read her book!
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Summary: Something other then the diary
Review: Ok, so Anne's diary will almost always out shadow other stories shes written, and with good reason, but the stories here are rather well written. The 1st half of the book contains actuall stories she was writting, some short, some long, and part of an unfinished novel. The 2nd half of the story is memories of events that happend to her in her life that she wrote down.
Anyone who likes her diary should really give her stories a read.
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Summary: Unimpressive collection of lesser writings
Review: Short, 150 pages, but awfully tiresome. I got this book off the Amazon recommendations after I had ordered the diary, expecting to find further writings that would be as engrossing as her wonderfully touching diary. The first part of the book collects Anne Frank's short stories and seem typical of a gifted writer of her age, centered around the thoughts and ideas of girls at that age. The second part collects some of the essays she wrote about her life. Unable to hold a torch to the diary, its only glimmer lies in some eviscerated diary entries. Unless you are a genuine devotee of Anne Frank, this has little to offer.
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Summary: THIS BOOK IS REALLY WONDERFUL
Review: THE MAIN OBJECTIVE IS TO DISCRIBE THE TREMENDOUS EFFORT THAT A LADY HAS DONE IN HER LIFE, SO IT MAGNIFIES THE POWER OF AN EXCELLENT LITERATURE AROUND THE WORLD. THE COURAGE IS THE REFLECT OF THE SMART HUMAN BEINGS, FOR GETTING NEW PERSPECTIVES IN THE LIFE MANISFESTATION
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