With Anne's diary there was a version A, B + C.
First one was the original just for her.
Second she started editing by herself after she heard a broadcast asking for documents like diaries to be kept for after the war.
C what her father published. Taking out unflattering things.
All three versions have been published in The Critical Edition. Hard to find though :
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There's also another published booked by her called Tales from the Annex. The short stories that she wrote.
Main criticisms that I've heard is that the writing is too good for a child. That she wrote about the grocer bringing in huge sacks of potatoes. The fact that they used rags to cover the windows which went unnoticed. They were too kept up to dates with events.
DITLIEB FELDERER take on the diary:
"Another, matter which strikes a reader is that the diary is not the type of story one would want one's own child to write. It is not a KIND story. It is not the sign of a healthy child. Indeed it leaves the air of being a product of someone who tries to invent a child's mind but is unable to do so, sprinkling it with "sexy" portions to sell the story. We need not here go into the various stories circulating that those portions which were left out concerned advanced sex.
We find it difficult to believe that this girl, living in such "cramped quarters" ever was involved with these things. We cannot make out why a girl living under these circumstances would be preoccupied with all these "love affairs" at such tender age. In today's promiscuous society it may be an ordinary thing but not during the war.
It simply does not make sense to us. "
I know that as a 13/14 year I did talk about sex.
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It seems rather strange that she should have so few entries at the very time she so enthusiastically sets out to write a diary. One would expect she should have made an entry for almost every day. Seeing we are constantly reminded of "the young talented authoress" and about all her many ambitions to write and to become a great writer we certainly wonder why this "talented" girl made so few entries. It doesn't make sense. "
I have kept multiple diaries. I sometimes want to write, but I don't always have the words. It takes time to get to it and it can be hard to keep up writing everyday.
3.
We were not at Amsterdam in those days to know if the moon AT ALL WAS VISIBLE; nevertheless, the passage that "the moon gave far too much light" seems rather odd.
4.
That a child, and a girl at that, should go so far as to call her own father by a nickname would be worse than an insult to the father.