84, Charing Cross Road - Softcover

Helene Hanff

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140143505 ISBN 13: 9780140143508

Publisher: Penguin, 1990

Synopsis

This charming classic love story, first published in 1970, brings together twenty years of correspondence between Helene Hanff, at the time, a freelance writer living in New York City, and a used-book dealer in London at 84, Charing Cross Road. Through the years, though never meeting and separated both geographically and culturally, they share a winsome, sentimental friendship based on their common love for books. Their relationship, captured so acutely in these letters, is one that has touched the hearts of thousands of readers around the world.

"84, Charing Cross Road will beguile and put you in tune with mankind... It will provide an emollient for the spirit and sheath for the exposed nerve." -- The New York Times

"A unique, throat-lumping, side-splitting treasure." -- San Francisco Examiner

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Review:

One of the subtlest, sharpest, most moving relationships ever formed between pen pals. I can't imagine [84 Charing Cross Road] without Stevenson and Nettles. Her warmth, his reticence, their shared love of old books made me weep. I miss books horribly, but audios as perfect as this make up for the loss. (GUARDIAN)

A lovely new edition of this classic title (Good Book Guide)

A must for anyone who reads - the correspondence between book lover Helen Hanff and Messers Marks & Cross of Charing Cross Road has been reissued. (Daily Express)

Unmitigated delight from cover to cover (DAILY TELEGRAPH)

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Unmitigated delight from cover to cover' DAILY TELEGRAPH

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0140143505
• ISBN 13: 9780140143508
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 112