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Are there any famous diaries?

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Examples of such diaries are the Journal d'un bourgeois de Paris written by an anonymous French clerk from 1401 to 1431; accounts of daily life in the American colonies by William Bradford John Winthrop William Byrd and Samuel Sewall ; Anne Frank 's diary (1947 tr. 1953) an account of the early days of World War II by a young German-Jewish girl who died in a concentration camp; and Harold Nicolson 's diaries (1964-68) which treat the world situation from 1929 to 1962.

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