Frank, Anne

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Anne Frank Diary
The Desperate Writings of a Girl and Wartime Tragedy
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl

Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank
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ASIN: 0553296981
Release Date: 1993-06-01

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A beloved classic since its initial publication in 1947, this vivid, insightful journal is a fitting memorial to the gifted Jewish teenager who died at Bergen-Belsen, Germany, in 1945. Born in 1929, Anne Frank received a blank diary on her 13th birthday, just weeks before she and her family went into hiding in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam. Her marvelously detailed, engagingly personal entries chronicle 25 trying months of claustrophobic, quarrelsome intimacy with her parents, sister, a second family, and a middle-aged dentist who has little tolerance for Anne's vivacity. The diary's universal appeal stems from its riveting blend of the grubby particulars of life during wartime (scant, bad food; shabby, outgrown clothes that can't be replaced; constant fear of discovery) and candid discussion of emotions familiar to every adolescent (everyone criticizes me, no one sees my real nature, when will I be loved?). Yet Frank was no ordinary teen: the later entries reveal a sense of compassion and a spiritual depth remarkable in a girl barely 15. Her death epitomizes the madness of the Holocaust, but for the millions who meet Anne through her diary, it is also a very individual loss. --Wendy Smith

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Discovered in the attic in which she spent the last years of her life, Anne Frank's remarkable diary has since become a world classic -- a powerful reminder of the horrors of war and an eloquent testament to the human spirit. In 1942, with Nazis occupying Holland, a thirteen-year-old Jewish girl and her family fled their home in Amsterdam and went into hiding. For the next two years, until their whereabouts were betrayed to the Gestapo, they and another family lived cloistered in the "Secret Annex" of an old office building. Cut off from the outside world, they faced hunger, boredom, the constant cruelties of living in confined quarters, and the ever-present threat of discovery and death. In her diary Anne Frank recorded vivid impressions of her experiences during this period. By turns thoughtful, moving, and amusing, her account offers a fascinating commentary on human courage and frailty and a compelling self-portrait of a sensitive and spirited young woman whose promise was tragically cut short.

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Review and reflection upon re-reading Anne's diary.......2007-06-20

It's my fault for following up a re-reading of The Catcher in the Rye with a re-reading of The Diary of Anne Frank. I feel overwhelmed by memories of my youth. The beautiful sunny day outside is fighting with my hyper-brooding and melancholy mood. I don't think I was ever as fascinating as Anne is in her diary. I know that I have never been so in earnest about anything. Here's a teenage girl reading books like I used to play video games and watch stupid movies. Here's a curious and Renaissance mind while mine has become complacent and clogged with jingles from television commercials.

Anne's explorations into her own mind and emotions are naked and honest. Her observations about war, God, love, the Jews, the Nazis, the British, and her family and friends emit alternating currents of acuteness and naïveté. Her sexual awakening is refreshing and innocent. Her understanding of her own psychology is penetrating, complex, and unfolds over the course of the diary. I'm amazed at the force of Anne's vibrancy. It appears that even the worst of circumstances cannot stop a life-loving girl from becoming a woman.

For all the wildness of Anne's thoughts and emotions, she gets closer to centering herself in the final few entries. As she quickly matures in the last quarter of the diary, I noticed the right side of the book becoming thinner and I didn't want the diary to end, because I knew what that meant. I swear that the closing pages of Anne's diary are haunted.

At some point in your life, you should read Anne's diary. I suggest re-reading it a few times throughout your life, in fact. It remains an important historical document but also an eternal reminder of youth, life, and love when the world around you isn't like you know it should be.

Spectacular propaganda.......2007-05-24

This is, at best, a novelization of Anne Frank's diary. I don't doubt that there was a young Jewish girl named Anne Frank who lived in the Secret Annexe with her family and four other people. I don't doubt that she kept a diary of her life in the Annexe, or that all the occupants were terrified of being discovered. I don't doubt that they were the victims of a terrible crime against humanity.

What I doubt is that the Anne Frank who speaks to us through the words is the real Anne Frank. Instead, the Anne Frank of the book is a creation of the editor and translator. She writes unlike any 13-15 year old. Her words are unmatched in eloquence and she uses words and phrases that are far beyond the vocabulary of even bright young teens.

Likewise, the pacing and story construction is so well done as to call into question the authenticity of Anne's words. The book is too novel-like to be believable as a diary. The clever use of wording and pacing lead to a depth that can be plumbed for meaning many times over. One such "trick" is how Peter Van Daan is called to be respectful towards Anne in their blooming romance. Anne is hopeful that Peter will not "disappoint" her by making too forward of advances. Later on, she mentions in a single breath that she is disappointed in him, but this is not accompanied by any explanation. The very next diary entry, she relays her fretfulness over her late period. The astute reader may put two and two together and come to the conclusion that Anne and Peter may have been having sexual relations. But it is cleverly never said outright.

Another example is how the diary foreshadows Anne's reunion with Lies through her premonitions. Before her death, Anne once again met with Lies at the concentration camp. It is a little too convenient.

The incarnation of Dostoyevsky's Amalia Ivanovna in the person of Mrs. Van Daan was a nice touch. (poof! poof!)

The triumphant closing diary entry stands in sharp contrast to the subsequent real-life events that took the lives of most of the Secret Annexe occupants. The book is too perfect, its timing too impeccable, and its style too eloquent that it ceases to be the diary of Anne Frank and is instead the novelization of whatever diary she may have actually kept.

Strangely, it was the afterword that affected me the most. Where it is the narrator discussing the end of Anne's life as it happened, where she is stripped of her eloquence and becomes the real Anne Frank once again.

The book is deep and rich. It encourages thoughtfulness in the reader, and challenges the reader to examine his own beliefs. It humanizes the victims and shows them to be sometimes good, sometimes bad, many times brave, and occasionally terrified. It's less the diary of a young girl than it is the tragic story of people making the best in an impossible situation. I can't recommend it enough.

Anne Frank Diary.......2007-05-20

A very good book, just the one my child needed for school

The Desperate Writings of a Girl and Wartime Tragedy.......2007-05-20

Although this book is indispensable in the history of Hitler's antisemitism.

Ann Ann is very pessimistic, very confident that one day she will leave the annex.

The book closes on the morbid reality that only Ann's father survived the camps, the other five expired.

Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl.......2007-05-15

Great book. A valuable addendum when reading The Freedom Writers. A very positive teaching tool. My 17 year old daughter has enjoyed the book and it has enhanced her views and opened her mind to many issues that still exist in the world today.

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If you have to pick only ONE book of Shakespeare: this is it!
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The Riverside Shakespeare
William Shakespeare , Heather Dubrow , William T. Liston , Charles H. Shattuck , and G. Blakemore Evans
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The Second Edition of this complete collection of Shakespeare's plays and poems features two essays on recent criticism and productions, fully updated textual notes, a photographic insert of recent productions, and two works recently attributed to Shakespeare. The authors of the essays on recent criticism and productions are Heather DuBrow, University of Wisconsin at Madison, and William Liston, Ball State University, respectively.</p>

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If you have to pick only ONE book of Shakespeare: this is it!.......2006-11-18

I love Norton, but for this author THE RIVERSIDE is the definative edition, not perfect, but in this case; the best and only book you need for the Bard. I miss the one-volumn edition, but everyone will love the bonus material that has been added in this 2 vol boxset! IT HAS EVERYTHING a student will ever need and more than most professors can use. For 99.98% of the population: this book is MORE than complete...I think you would ahve to go to the Folios or Quatros directly to get a more book with more authority.

Thirty years ago ..........2006-11-10

as an undergraduate I lugged the one volume edition of this across various campuses, quite in love with the information and extras we finally were allowed access to after the censored versions of shakespeare we had in high school. Having been recently (rather abruptly) retired, I wanted a Shakespeare to read that was both
familiar and not *quite* as heavy as the one volume edition I carried around in the old days. This edition
is excellent. I'm not in a position to go into textual criticism, but it has more than enough for me right now, and of course has all the references one needs to go further. It is an excellent buy at an excellent price.

Hands down, the best!.......2006-08-11

If you're looking for the best edition of Shakespeare's works, you can't do any better than the Riverside Edition. The editors have done a top-notch job with the second edition, making well-educated dramaturgical decisions based on proven ideas and facts. Includes late co-authored pieces Edward III, Sir Thomas More, and Richard II; not to mention a load of Shakespeare-related records/documents and photos of popular plays in performance.

The glossary is extensive, yet not overwhelming and each of the play commentaries are extremely insightful (especially those on the comedies by Professor Anne Barton--no relation to John).

Dramaturgy at its finest.......2006-08-02

When I was looking to buy a complete works I was drawn to ARDEN. Being a performer, the Arden scripts were those that helped me with my personal dramaturgy the most. However when I went to look inside a "complete works" published by Arden, I was thoroughly dissappointed. They had zero footnotes, and very little commentary on the pieces. That is when a woman bumped into me and told me if I were looking for a complete works, I should go with Riverside's second edition. I was in the Tudor Guild bookshop in Ashland, Oregon at the time. This woman told me that this edition, is the same edition that Libby Apel (Head of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival) gives to all of her friends as a gift.

It has full footnotes for translation, and language comparison. It also has a short commentary before each play and poem describing the time in which it was wrote, and for what reason. This came in handy when I was mounting a 10 minute production of Richard III. Also in parenthesis are specific words that may have been changed over the years. One may revert back to the appendicies to see what the word might have been in the first, second and third folio text. If you are looking to study a singular play, I would truly reccommend buying them on their own through Arden Shakespeare in the Second or Third Editions. However, If you are looking to own the complete works I would suggest the Riverside Shakespeare second Edition. I now own 3 complete works anthologies, and this one (my first) is still the best.

Southern Illinois University .......2006-01-10

When this edition first came out, it bumped Signet's Complete Shakespeare out of the classrooms and into oblivion. 30 years later I still have both books, and each is a true gem. The Riverside was quite something to have to carry around campus, but what brave memories I recall ~ and it is an honour to be able to recommend this edition to one and all. Bravo!

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Must read.......2007-06-11

This book is a hard read in terms of the subject matter it is covering. But it is an easy read in terms of it being well written and having examples and supportive arguements. Overall, I felt it was a major eye opener and definatley a must read for any northerner in better understanding the history of this area. You will be surprized.

Correcting Revisionist History.......2007-04-22

Very good book. Though I'm puzzled why another reviewer stated that the book contained no references making it difficult to check the sources. My copy has footnotes and a bibliography.

Perfect.......2007-03-24

Very interesting book but none of the sources were cited in the text so although it makes sense, I am still skeptical

The truth about slavery!.......2007-03-07

You may not have heard very much about it in school, and you definitely will not not hear about it in the national media, but the north was also very much invovled in slavery up to the civil war! When the question is asked "What was the main reason for this terrible period in our history?" the typical answer is SLAVERY! Taking this train of thought to its end, the true answer is "PROFIT" (power/money). I am very much a believer in capitolism, but not at the expense of human beings! I believe this book demonstrates many powerful people in the north sought profit over people, as did the southerners who owned slaves. Let us not forget the fact that many fellow Africans made profits from selling other blacks into slavery. So now you see that there are guilty parties on all 3 points of the triangular trade! If you are very much interested in American History, I highly recommend this book to you for a fair and balanced look at American slavery. If you maybe somewhat interested in this subject, I believe you'll find some very interesting informatiom in it also.

TYPICAL OF america.......2007-02-07

YES, ALL SHOULD KNOW HOW THE NORTH(BIG BUSINESS)COMPLICITY WITH SLAVERY. ALSO, THAT THE NORTH(NEW YORK AND THE OTHER 12 ORIGINAL COLONIES )HAD SLAVES, AND THE RELUCTANCE WHEN THE CIVIL WAR STARTED.

The Diary of Anne Frank (Critical Edition) (Critical Editions)

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Diary of Anne Frank.......2002-11-14

I am going to tell you about the best book I have ever read. The best book I have read is
The Diary of Anne Frank. It is about a little girl that is Jewish. It takes place in 1945 during
World War II. It talks about them being scared of hearing a knock at the door. It talks about them getting sent to concentration camps and how the people get tortured there like in gas chambers that is were they stick you in a room air tight and fill the room with deadly gas fumes. They wood also cut all your hair off and tattoo a number on you. Most of the people would die because they would freeze to death because it was so cold. They were fed very little food and their beds had flies all around them and they would make you have a job like cleaning the bathrooms. So you can see people there were treated very badly. And all this happened because one man named Hitler wanted to do this all because the people where Jewish. These are just a few things why this is my favorite book. And I think that you should read this book too.

Anne Frank: An INTERESTING Person.......2002-07-13

I really didnt know much about Anne Frank and the Holocaust until my seventh grade year. But once i learned about it i developed an interest in it. It was a sad SAD thing to study but it is life which i want to learn more about and it is history which i love to study. Anne Frank was the most interesting person that i studied about in the Holocaust. Read the book and find out just how interesting she was!!!!

The Diary of Anne Frank: The Critical Edition is the best!.......2001-10-04

I love this book, because it make me understand that all three versions of the diary that know Anne wrote her original diaries,two notebooks and 324 loose sheet while she was hiding.

Anne did write alot about her friends, sexual feeelings, and fighting between her and her mother. The second one is missing,so she did finish the rewrite on loose sheet which is version B that the dated from December 7, 1942 to December 22, 1943. The last page of the rewrite on loose sheet on March 29,1994 about listening the radio broadcasting the Duth Exile from london that collected the daries and letters that people want to read then after the war. Anne did all the rewrite, but she never finished sadly, on August 4, 1944 the day of the arrest the nazi interupted her. She is a great writer of all times. I'm very obessed Anne Frank, because she is so smart!.

Anyone want to about Anne's life was Melissa Muller's Biography "Anne Frank" This is a great book!

I love Anne Frank!.......2001-08-02

I'm glad someone decided to provide an uncensored version of Anne Frank's diary in English. This book contains English translations of three versions of Anne Frank's diaries, printed in such a way as to make it easier to compare them than if they had been printed back to back or in separate volumes. One version is Anne's fictionalized version. One is the, censored version as it was introduced to the Puritanical United States. The unabridged version is excellent, but not for prudes. Anne Frank was apparently bisexual, as well as a young woman of great intellect, insight and literary talent! I was amazed at how well I was able to relate to her, even though she was of another gender, born into a different race, raised on a different continent (Europe), about a quarter of a century before me! Thanks to this book, I fell in love with her!

The tragedy of Anne Frank.......2000-06-02

Born on June 12, 1929 in Frankfort on the main, Germany (now west Germany) Anne Frank died in March 1945. Although she did not live to see it. Anne frank did accomplish her dream of being a succesful writer, her diary gave us an in depth and ever so interesting account of life for a Jewish family in hiding during the Nazi Revoulution. Even a fiction tale could never be as interesting as the diary of Anne Frank.

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The editors argue that future research into complex animal societies and intelligence will change the perception of animals as gene machines, programmed to act in particular ways and perhaps elevate them to a status much closer to our own. At a time when humans are perceived more biologically than ever before, and animals as more cultural, are we about to witness the dawn of a truly unified social science, one with a distinctly cross-specific perspective?</p>

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Good entrance point into the literature.......2007-05-12

This is a collection of scientific articles on animal cognition and its relationship to social structure. It covers a wide range of species, from wolves, to dolphins, to chimpanzees to elephants. To me, it plugs an important hole between more general books on the theory of evolutionary psychology and actual field research. I found it particularly interesting, because most books on this subject stick to the primates. To broaden the scope to include other high-intelligence mammals, such as dolphins and elephants, was valuable. It makes it possible to start thinking about animal cognition and social structure, in a genuinely cross-species context.

This is not a book for the beginner or the casual reader. These are actual, technical scientific papers. The book is aimed at those who want the real science, in a handier format than digging out the articles from scientific journals.

O.K., but not what I expected.......2005-09-29

I was very excited to read this book, it looked like an excellent compilation of interesting research from a wide range of fields. However, I was dissappointed by the contents. Most chapters are just reviews of the general research of the authors, and some hardly address the idea of intelligence and culture. Some authors spend the whole chapter just reviewing their research, and then in the last paragraph run over their thoughts on if there is intelligence or culture in their study species in just a few sentences. Having said that, some chapters are golden and well worth the read. Because this book is relatively cheap for a science book, I would say that the few insightful chapters make it worth the cost, but overall it was not as informative or interesting as I had hoped.

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The Story of Anne Frank
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This book tells the complete story of Anne Frank's life and answers many questions such as How did her diary survive?

Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex

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What a great author she may have been
Great stories and reminicenses from a talented young girl.
Something other then the diary
Unforgettable stories for young and old alike.
Stories from a gifted writer who was never allowed to be...

Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex
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The candid, poignant, unforgettable writing of the young girl whose own life story has become an everlasting source of courage and inspiration.

Hiding from the Nazis in the “Secret Annex” 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 rounds out the portrait of this remarkable and talented young author.

Newly translated, complete, and restored to the original order in which Anne herself wrote them in her notebook, Tales from the Secret Annex is a collection of Anne Frank’s lesser-known writings: short stories, fables, personal reminiscences, and an unfinished novel, Cady’s Life.

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What a great author she may have been .......2005-08-19

This wonderful little book is a collection of Anne Frank's lesser known writings , found in a seperate volume.
It shows what a phenomenal young writer she was , and hints what a great author she may have been had she been allowed to live.

The book consists of fables and short stories as well as personal reminiscenses and essays.

They range from 'Kitty' - Anne's reflections on the blonde little girl next door , to beautiful fairy tales (which remind me a bit of Oscar Wilde's fairy tales) like 'The Wise Old Dwarf' and 'The Fairy'-all have a wonderful lesson enclosed within.

'Paula's Plane Trip' and 'Cady's Life' focus on the adventures of young girls during wartime , the latter touching on the holocaust which later swallowed up Anne's young life.

A constant theme in the book is Anne's conviction that relaxing and connecting with nature , can ease one's mind from any difficulties.

In 'Personal Remininscinces and Essays' Anne Frank lets us know a little bit more about life in the little house where she and other Jews hid for some years from Nazi terror.
In a particularly poignant passage , she remarks that after the war , she would get together photos of the people in the house, which is why she spent so little time on physical description of the house's inhabitants. Anne was confident she would survive the war , and recontinue her life.

A remarkable testament to the wonderful life of a child whose life was cut so short.

Great stories and reminicenses from a talented young girl........2003-09-03

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.

Something other then the diary.......2003-01-26

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.

Unforgettable stories for young and old alike........2002-01-29

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!

Stories from a gifted writer who was never allowed to be..........2001-03-06

Also published under the title "Tales from the House Behind," this is a collection of juvenile/young adult stories that Anne Frank worked on during her years in hiding in the annex with her family and fellow fugitives. It proves that this young girl had an incredible gift for writing, and that had she lived she probably would have been received the Noble Prize for Literature. Her stories were often candid indictments of her own family life, such as Kitty, which tells the story of a young girl who day-dreams and a mother who wants her child to listen and obey rather than dream. Anne's essays show an in-depth understanding of human nature, surprising for one so young. This is a poignant book filled with fables, short stories, essays and even part of an unfinished novel. It's worth reading after you have read "The Diary of Anne Frank" simply because the diary will give you more insight to this amazing girl's life. However "Tales from the Secret Annex" stands on its own too, and like the diary should be on every school child's list of books to read.

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Northwest Style: Interior Design and Architecture in the Pac
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As the Pacific Northwest becomes ever more popular, a book like Anne Wall Frank's Northwest Style seems perfectly timed to highlight the eclectic interior and exterior styles that exemplify the region. Along with stunning photographs by Michael Mathers, the prose conveys the casual "style without a style" nature of the many beautiful homes featured.

Northwest Style takes a look at better than three dozen homes that range from a city apartment in downtown Seattle to a houseboat on the Willamette River in Oregon, as well as a couple of patrician homes that command some of the most amazing views of the waters and mountains of the Northwest. It's evident that one of the trademarks of this style is the influence of many cultures, as is the natural look of exposed wooden beams, high windows to let in the seldom-seen sunlight, and a profusion of artifacts from the region's fishing and logging heritage. There is a conscious effort in many of the homes pictured to define a portion of the West, be it Asian influences, the frontier sensibilities of bow saws and mounted bucks gazing down from above the fireplace, or the persistent architectural use of wood, as in the thoroughly appointed log cabin overlooking Hood Canal. At times, some of these techniques result in a home that is more museum than living space, but all are striking and do a good deal to show just how much independent spirit is still alive in the Northwest.

Northwest Style is less about any one definitive Northwest image than it is a sampling of the spectacular cultural and environmental influences of the Pacific Northwest. This, along with the extensive list of galleries, antique shops, and decorating stores in the book's appendix, provides a elegant look at the many possibilities open to those who call the Northwest home. --Kris Law

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The rugged beauty of the Pacific Coast has spawned a style that is informal yet modern, organic yet refined. Northwest Style, now in paperback, brings to light the spirit and diversity of this region's architecture and decor, as demonstrated in dozens of distinctive homes in Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia. Northwest style is notable for its extraordinary blend of influences, including modernism and Japanese architecture. While the styles vary, a sensitivity to the environment and a desire to accentuate the natural beauty of the region lie at the heart of almost every design. Color photographs celebrate each structure's unique features, highlight architectural and decorative details, and show the surrounding landscape. Full of inspiring ideas, "Northwest Style belongs in the must-have category" (Seattle Post-Intelligencer).

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Good for what it covered.......2001-02-06

I liked the book and it was excellent in the areas covered, but it missed the largest part of the US PNW geographic area - the high deserts and dry land conifer forests East of the Cascades in Oregon, Washington, and Idaho. As one born and raised in the Northwest, I would really like someone to write a book that acknowledged and showed the styles of architecture and interior design found in places like Pendleton and White Swan.

Most of the PNW is not wet and cloudy, but drier with a harsh and stark beauty that can clearly be seen on the old highway between Ellensburg and Yakima, or cruising between Bend and Madras. Or in the forested places near La Grande and in Northern Idaho. There is the Horse Heaven and Pend Orielle country as well, which have their own forms of architecture that pay tribute to a beautiful and fascinating, and not always kind country.

I wish for a book on PNW style that covers more than the narrow coastal strips and Willamette Valley.

Northwest Style: Interior Design and Architecture in the Pac.......1999-12-14

It is obvious Ann Wall Frank loves homes. Her beautifully written text is like poetry, and the photography is stunning. It is a must have for anyone who cherishes making a house a home. The humor, warmth, and intelligence of Ann Frank's writing style sets this book apart from others of its kind. We in the northwest are proud of our style, and Northwest Style captures who we are perfectly. Encore!

a must for every student of architecture,construction,style........1999-11-01

Who knew the Pacific Northwest had such an eclectic range of home styles, from Japanese influenced designs to rustic log cabins, to stunning urban lofts. This book is written in an accessible (versus snobby) style, warmed by humor and with an irreverent eye to the iconoclastic bent of the nation's current power center. Beautiful photographs and "real" homeowners--not royalty or billionaires.

The eclectic Northwest lifestyle and architecture.......1999-11-01

This book presents a variety of Northwest homes that defines the lifestyle and architecture of this unique region. Each home is beautifully photographed highlighting the unique architecture and decor. How each home relates to the natural beauty of the region is explored. Ms. Frank narrative personalizes the homes. This a good read. Don't just look at the pictures.

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