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Helene, scrittrice americana con pochi quattrini e una bruciante attrazione per i classici inglesi del Settecento, scrive alla libreria antiquaria londinese Marks & Co., al numero 84 di Charing Cross Road, per richiedere dei libri. Le risponde il compito e scrupoloso libraio Frank Doel, e da quel giorno del 1949 le loro lettere attraverseranno l’Atlantico per vent’anni. I due corrispondenti non s’incontreranno mai, ma ...

A brand new edition of Helene Hanff's letters, as broadcast on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour. First published in the 1990s and now re-issued with an introduction by the New York Times bestselling author Jean Hanff Korelitz, and illustrations by New Yorker cartoonist Bruce Eric Kaplan

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Wenn man die Bücher Helene Hanffs liest, möchte man die ganze Zeit heulen. Weil sie so lustig schreibt, weil sie eine so feine Person ist, weil es so gemein ist, dass sie seit 1997 tot ist." Berliner Zeitung.Die beliebte Autorin von "84, Charing Cross Road" und "Die Herzogin der Bloomsbury Street" lebt schon seit vier Jahrzehnten in New York, als sie sich überreden lässt, für eine Radiosendung der BBC regelmäßig Geschichten aus ihrer Stadt zu ...

È Frank Doel, commesso in una vecchia libreria antiquaria londinese - "l'unica creatura al mondo che mi capisca" - a soddisfare gli stravaganti desideri di una giovane scrittrice americana appassionata di saggi del Settecento, che con lui intreccia una fitta corrispondenza. Miss Hanff sogna per anni di sbarcare nell'"Inghilterra della letteratura", di conoscere di persona Doel e la libreria cui deve tanto. Ma Frank scompare prematuramente e la...

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Nancy Mitford meets Nora Ephron in the pages of The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street, Helene Hanff's delightful travelogue about her "bucket list” trip to LondonWhen devoted Anglophile Helene Hanff is invited to London for the English publication of 84, Charing Cross Road—in which she shares two decades of correspondence with Frank Doel, a British bookseller who became a dear friend—she can hardly believe her luck. Frank is no longer alive, but hi...

Auf der Suche nach seltenen Büchern stößt die New Yorkerin Helene Hanff 1949 auf die Adresse eines kleinen Londoner Antiquariats. Als sie kurzerhand zum Stift greift, weiß sie noch nicht, dass diese ersten Zeilen den Beginn eines über Jahre andauernden Briefwechsels und einer lebenslangen Freundschaft bedeuten.

The true story of the love affair between the author and the sellers of rare books at the address of the title.

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It's a book about show business, where fame is the stock in trade. Each year there are hundreds of stagestruck kids arrive in New York determined to crash the theatre, firmly convinced they're destined to be famous Broadway stars or playwrights.

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Een vriendschap in brieven tussen Helene Hanff uit New York en de medewerkers van Marks & Co, een antiquarische boekhandel op Charing Cross Road 84 in Londen. In de late jaren '50 van de twintigste eeuw leest Helene een advertentie waarin staat dat de Londense boekhandel Marks & Co gespecialiseerd is in boeken die niet meer in druk zijn. Alles wat zij zou willen hebben is in New York absoluut niet te krijgen. Ze schrijft een brief, nietsvermo...

This memoir tells the remarkable story of how Helene Hanff came to write 84, Charing Cross Road, and how its success changed her. Hanff recalls her serendipitous discovery of a volume of lectures by a Cambridge don, Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch. She devoured Q's book, and, wanting to read all the books he recommended, began to order them from a small store in London at 84, Charing Cross Road. Thus began a correspondence that became an enormously p...

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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 ...

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It all began with a letter enquiring about second-hand books, written by Helene Hanff in New York, and posted to a bookshop at 84 Charing Cross Road, London. As Helene's sarcastic and witty letters are responded to by the stodgy and proper Frank Doel of 84 Charing Cross Road, a relationship blossoms into a warm, charming, feisty love affair. We follow, in her subsequent letters and in the shop's responses, the trial of one woman, s idiosyncrat...

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