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84 Charing Cross Road |  | Author: Helene Hanff
Publisher: Time Warner Paperbacks
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  17 reviews
Sales Rank: 394838
Media: Paperback
Edition: New Ed
Pages: 192
ISBN: 0860074382
EAN: 9780860074380
ASIN: 0860074382
Publication Date: March 1, 1992
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Condition: A sticker at bottom of spine, some tanning to pages and general wear
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Utterly Charming August 4, 2008
Thank goodness this book is so short, because I could not put it down until I had read every last word. What a delightful little read, and how desperately I wanted to be a part of that book shop, and then Helene's little apartment. Not to be missed. Follow it up with the lovely film starring Anne Bancroft and Anthony Hopkins.
in haste... January 17, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
buy this book, it warms your heart. i am amazed it escaped my grasp for so long. sure, it's twee, there's no angst or attitude, politics or grit. amen, to that. it's a simple story about civilised people in a by-gone age, and it's true. i have since stalked the long closed bookshop. perhaps better to sit in a bloomsbury square and long for times past...
If you love books - you'll love 84 Charing Cross Road April 17, 2007
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
This has become a favourite book for me. Told with such poignant charm, through the letters and other communications from the time. Even those letters which are obviously missing, lost through the passage of time - tell their own story. Helene's long distance friendship with Frank Doel, and others he worked with at that now famous address is a bittersweet one, and one which will remain with the reader long afterwards. Helene's love of books is infectious - and this book is therefore a must for anyone who feels strongly about the books in their home.
Friendship with Depth and Love October 17, 2006
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
In these days of e-books, and bland books constructed from franchised ideas and formulas, we are presented "84, Charing Cross Road," a story about a relationship begun because of a mutual love of old great books.
Frank Doel owns the English bookstore, and Helene Hanff mails him a request for a book. Correspondence and a relationship begins. Contently and confidently married, Doel responds as an older brother might, and the two grow to cherish each other despite the distance.
As they care for each other, and slowly, their local friends and family become aware, we see how love transcends the sea. Neither character has an agenda, and this left me feeling a little less cynical about the world around me.
Like Nick Bantock's "Griffin and Sabine," it carries a romantic mystery and intrigue. We read the correspondence and imagine.
Like so many of today's e-mail- and chatroom-only friendships, they learn to appreciate each other, though knowing only the other as they choose to describe themselves.
This isn't a story about books or bookstores, despite the honest representation of their demeanor and personality. Any booklover knows the search for a book, and the texture of a bookseller's knowledge and connection with his books.
This is a book about the depth, trust, and love of one unexpected relationship. Book lovers will enjoy the context, and good friends will smile knowingly.
The movie with Anthony Hopkins and Anne Bancroft is likewise worth viewing, carrying the letters into a emotional zone of charm and delight.
A wonderful book of letters May 23, 2005
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
Helene Hanff and Frank Doel's letters to one another are beautifully written and very touching. The relationship that develops between the two of them despite, or perhaps because of, never meeting is great to see. The fact that it takes so long to happen as well (over a period of almost 20 years) just adds to how deep the friendship between these two people clearly was. The second part of the book (The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street) give a touching account of Helene Hanff's eventual visit to London to promote her book, sadly after Frank Doel has died and is a good postscript to the letters (even though it is actually longer than the main part of the book).
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