Diaries of Anne Frank". Memory of the World. United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization . Retrieved 9 October 2018. Schroth, Simone (Summer 2014). "Translating Anne Frank's "Het Achterhuis" ". Translation and Literature. Edinburgh University Press. 23 (2 Holocaust Testimony and Translation): 235–243. doi: 10.3366/tal.2014.0153. JSTOR 24585357. The original Dutch version was made available online by University of Nantes lecturer Olivier Ertzscheid and former member of the French Parliament Isabelle Attard. [6] [83] Authorship [ edit ] In 1986 the Dutch Institute for War Documentation published the "Critical Edition" of the diary, containing comparisons from all known versions, both edited and unedited, discussion asserting the diary's authentication, and additional historical information relating to the family and the diary itself. [49] It also included sections of Anne's diaries which had previously been edited out, containing passages on her sexuality, references to touching her friend's breasts, and her thoughts on menstruation. [50] [ unreliable source?] [51] [52] An edition was published in 1995 which included Anne's description of her exploration of her own genitalia and her puzzlement regarding sex and childbirth, having previously been edited out by the original publisher. [53] [54]

An elderly customer told me that her book club’s next book was Dracula, but she couldn’t remember what he’d written." In 1989, an English edition of this appeared under the title of The Diary of Anne Frank: The Revised Critical Edition, including Mooyaart-Doubleday's translation and Anne Frank's versions A and B, based on the Dutch critical version of 1986. [38] [39] A new translation by Susan Massotty, based on the original texts, was published in 1995.

The Diary of a Bookseller

Like Chocolat meets Penelope Fitzgerald’s The Bookshop, set in the Tuscan hills… A celebration of writing, words and people: delightful’ Books excite me, but reading a book about a bookshop, excites me just that little bit more. I haven't came across many books in this kind of genre, so I really made the most of this one. The book shop, is ran by Shaun Bythell, and is located in Wigtown, Scotland. It is a seemingly successful second-hand book shop, and this book contains the diary of Bythell, which he kept for a year, and has all the events of each day recorded in it. Berger, Joseph (4 November 2014). "Recalling Anne Frank, as Icon and Human Being". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 19 January 2017 . Retrieved 21 November 2023.

Here are several passages that I bookmarked….hope you enjoy like I did! And these are not uncommon but rather the tip of the iceberg…he has many funny things to say as well as interesting things. I almost felt like I was in the bookstore (actually he had pictures of the bookstore and it was a prototypic charming second-hand bookstore with books and bookcases galore and the cat (every used bookstore worth its salt must have a cat! 😊 ). Flood, Alison (7 May 2013). "Anne Frank's Diary in US schools censorship battle". The Guardian . Retrieved 24 February 2014. You’ll be amazed at how many customers try to haggle over prices. It’s a shop, not a rummage sale, for goodness’ sake! I can’t imagine ever having the cheek to offer less than the advertised price. Shaun Bythell kept a one year diary covering his book shop - and also his life and the lives of some of those around him. It's a very entertaining read, though I wish that he had given more ink to some of the more pleasant experiences that probably occurred in his shop. (I'm sure that there must have been more than he related.) The more bizarre or annoying experiences made good reading, but more positive experiences would have made for a better balanced book. Mr. Bythell seems to be a bit of a curmudgeon, so perhaps that accounts for many of the episodes he included. a whistling customer with a ponytail and what I can only assume was a hat he’d borrowed from a clown bought a copy of Paolo Coelho’s The Alchemist, I suspect deliberately to undermine my faith in humanity and dampen my spirits further.The first dramatization, written by the American author Meyer Levin, did not find a producer. Otto Frank, too, had his reservations about Levin's work..." [31] Of course, one person’s good book is another person’s bad book; the matter is entirely subjective.” The Bookshop contains 100,000 books, spread over a mile of shelving, with "twisting corridors" and "roaring fires", and all set in a rural town by the edge of the sea. Although there were a few laugh-out-loud moments, overall, I wouldn't say this was a "hilarious" read. Instead, I would often cringe at some of his derisive comments toward others.