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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.… (meer)
sfelber: Another book about books-this time the book selling business. A fascinating read. This memoir by Wendy Werris details her life from working in a San Francisco book store as a kid to becoming an independent book rep. A true behind-the-scene view for bibliophiles.… (meer)
"84 Charing Cross Road" is het verhaal van de hartverwarmende briefwisseling tussen Helene Hanff, een in New York wonende Amerikaanse schrijfster en Marks & Co, een tweedehands boekwinkel op Charing Cross Road 84. De brieven zijn duidelijk geschreven met veel humor en liefde en naarmate de briefwisseling vordert neemt de wederzijdse genegenheid toe. De briefwisseling begint in 1950 als Helene reageert op een advertentie van Marks & co en loopt door tot 1969 met de dood van Frank Doel, de voornaamste correspondent van Marks & Co. Helene spreekt regelmatig haar verlangen uit om de boekwinkel te bezoeken maar het is er nooit van gekomen. Ik heb dit boek zojuist voor de vierde keer gelezen en ik moet zeggen dat er weinig boeken zijn (zeker van deze geringe omvang) waar ik zo van geniet. Het boek is verfilmd met Anthony Hopkins als Frank Doel, maar de film bezit niet de magie die het boek heeft. Het boek kan niet warm genoeg worden aanbevolen en de Nederlandse vertaling van Barbara van Kooten leest prima. ( )
Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
F.P.D. In Memoriam
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14 East 95th St. New York City October 5, 1949 Marks & Co, 84, Charing Cross Road London, W.C. 2 England
Gentlemen: Your ad in the Saturday Review of Literature says that you specialize in out-of-print books.....
Very truly yours, Helene Hanff (Miss) Helene Hanff
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Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
My friends are peculiar about books. They read all the best sellers, they get through them as fast as possible, I think they skip a lot. And they NEVER read anything a second time so they don't remember a word of it a year later. But they are profoundly shocked to see me drop a book in the wastebasket or give it away. The way they look at it, you buy a book, you read it, you put it on the shelf, you never open it again for the rest of your life but YOU DON'T THROW IT OUT! NOT IF IT HAS A HARD COVER ON IT! Why not? I personally can't think of anything less sacrosanct than a bad book or even a mediocre book. [54]
I do love secondhand books that open to the page some previous owner read oftenest. The day Hazlitt came he opened to "I hate to read new books," and I hollered "Comrade!" to whoever owned it before me. [7]
It [the Book Lover's Anthology] looks too new and pristine ever to have been read by anyone else, but it has been: it keeps falling open at the most delightful places as the ghost of its former owner points me to things I've never read before. [56]
Have you got De Tocqueville's Journey to America? Somebody borrowed mine and never gave it back. Why is it that people who wouldn't dream of stealing anything else think it's perfectly all right to steal books? [61]
A newspaper man I know, who was stationed in London during the war, says tourists go to England with preconceived notions, so they always find exactly what they go looking for. I told him I'd go looking for the England of English literature, and he said: "Then it's there." [13]
Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
This is the main work - Hanff's 84 Charing Cross Road (unabridged). Please do not combine with omnibus/combined editions, anthologies or abridged editions.
The Folio Society edition contains both this work and The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street. UK edition titled 84 Charing Cross Road, ISBN 0860074382, 1844085244 and 1860498507, is actually an omnibus edition of this title and The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street. Works identified as this omnibus should NOT be combined with this work, 84 Charing Cross Road.
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Literary Criticism.
Nonfiction.
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.
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