84 Charing Cross Road

Hanff, Helene

ISBN 10: 140550255X ISBN 13: 9781405502559

Verlag: Hachette Audio, 2007

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Críticas:

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)

Reseña del editor:

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 reticent love affair between Miss Helene Hanff of New York and Messrs Marks and Co, sellers of rare and secondhand books, at 84 Charing Cross Road, London. For 20 years, this outspoken New York writer and Frank Doel, a rather more restrained London bookseller carry on an increasingly touching correspondence. No doubt their letters would have continued, but in 1969, a letter informed Helene that Frank Doel had died. In the collection's penultimate entry, Helene Hanff urges a tourist friend, ''If you happen to pass by 84 Charing Cross Road, kiss it for me. I owe it so much.'

Über diese Auflage

• Verlag: Hachette Audio
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• ISBN 10: 140550255X
• ISBN 13: 9781405502559
• Einband: CD de audio
• Anzahl der Seiten: 1