The author of 84, Charing Cross Road chronicles her dream-come-true trip to London and its literary landmarks: "A charmer." — The New York TimesWhen she's invited to London for the English publication of her wildly successful book, 84, Charing Cross Road—in which she shares two decades of correspondence with Frank Doel, a British bookseller who became a dear friend—New York writer Helene Hanff is thrilled to realize a lifelong dream. The t...

In her spirited, witty and vastly entertaining memoir, Helene Hanff recalls her ingenuous attempts to crash Broadway in the early forties as one of "the other 999."Naive, nearsighted, frequently penniless but hopelessly stagestruck, she found her life governed by Flanagan's Law: "No matter what happens to you, it's unexpected." Therefore, as a prize-winning Theatre Guild protégée with a brilliant future, Helene naturally found that all the producers who were going to produce her pla...

El mejor homenaje de un lector a su librero.Un día, en octubre de 1949, Helene Hanff, una joven escritora desconocida, envía una carta desde Nueva York a Marks & Co., la librería situada en el 84 de Charing Cross Road, en Londres. Apasionada, maniática, extravagante y muchas veces sin un duro, la señorita Hanff le reclama al librero Frank Doel volúmenes poco menos que inencontrables que apaciguarán su insaciable sed de descubrimientos. Veinte años más tarde, contin...

書店常常是愛書的旅人最鍾情的落腳處，一個城市若有了一座能吸引人的書店，往往城市就魅力倍增。在倫敦有一家書店 Marks & Co.，雖然已經不存在，但凡愛書人造訪倫敦一定必到查令十字路張望、拍照。這家書店的舊址之所以讓人徘徊留連，全是因為海蓮‧漢芙與法蘭克的動人故事：《查令十字路 84 號》這本小書是美國紐約作家海蓮和英國經營古董書的書店老闆法蘭克之間長達二十年書信往來。故事從海蓮看到古董書拍賣廣告，開始寫信給法蘭克詢問，憑藉著對書的熱情與專業興趣，兩個一輩子未曾謀面的愛書人搭建起長達二十年的情誼，留下的溫馨故事。這個真人真事最早見於讀者文摘，刊登披露後，引起驚人的迴響，最後當海蓮有了經費造訪倫敦，一切已經人去樓空……‧中國時報開卷一周好書榜(2002年3月)‧聯合報讀書人每周新書金榜(2002年4月)‧誠品選書 (2002年2月)‧台北市立圖書館 2002 年第 42 梯次「好書大家讀」好書推薦(非故事文學組書信類)‧紫石作坊2003年度推薦年度選書(TOP12)

"3 novembre 1949 Les livres me sont bien parvenus, le Stevenson est tellement beau qu’il fait honte à mes étagères bricolées avec des caisses à oranges. Moi qui ai toujours eu l’habitude du papier trop blanc et des couvertures raides et cartonnées des livres américains, je ne savais pas que toucher un livre pouvait donner autant de joie." Livre culte depuis sa première publication en 1970, ce petit joyau de correspondance est une véritable déclaration d’amour aux livres et aux librairies.

INCLUDES AN EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH THE READERS'Your ad in the Saturday Review of Literature says that you specialize in out-of-print books. The phrase 'antiquarian book-sellers' scares me somewhat, as I equate 'antique' with expensive. I am a poor writer with an antiquarian taste in books and all the things I want are impossible to get over here except in very expensive rare editions, or in Barnes & Noble's grimy, marked-up schoolboy copies.'So begins the delightfully reti...