"Whatever the 'Diary of Anne Frank' is, it is not a diary. A diary, as normally understood, is a daily account of events in the life of the writer. Various points may be stretched: the occasional entry may be missed, and written the following day; if the diary were to be published, no-one would quibble about the correction of spelling and punctuation; nor would it be regar "Whatever the 'Diary of Anne Frank' is, it is not a diary. A diary, as normally understood, is a daily account of events in the life of the writer. Various points may be stretched: the occasional entry may be missed, and written the following day; if the diary were to be published, no-one would quibble about the correction of spelling and punctuation; nor would it be regarded as dishonest if a hastily-written injudicious passage, penned in the heat of the moment, was expunged. But there can be no doubt that the common notion of a diary is of a daily, contemporaneous journal documenting the life and thoughts of an individual. This is something the 'Anne Frank Diary' most certainly is not." 'Anna Frank's Novel' is probably the most rigorous and uncompromising critique of the 'Diary' ever published, undertaken from a Revisionist standpoint. It was first published as a 52-page booklet in 1998, with minor revisions since. Although not favoured with publicity, this publication has had a significant impact on the claims made by the 'Anne Frank industry.'