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Verlag: Brand: Moyer Bell and its subsidiaries, 2011
ISBN 10: 0825306302ISBN 13: 9780825306303
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Softcover. Zustand: Good. Barbara Gordon's groundbreaking memoir tells the extraordinary story of a woman who has it all, or thinks she does: a career as an Emmy-award-winning documentary producer, a man she loves, a world of friends, and a beautiful apartment in Manhattan.But in spite of the pills prescribed by her doctor, a nameless terror disrupting her daily life intensifies until she is besieged by crippling anxiety attacks. A formerly strong, independent, successful woman, Barbara's life becomes a nightmare of paralysis and fear.When Barbara finds herself unable to leave her apartment or walk the streets of New York alone, she decides to take charge of her life. She doesn't want pills, she wants answers. Instead of ending her fears, quitting the medicine leads to the unraveling of what she thought was her perfect life, and Barbara becomes a casualty of a flawed and inept mental health system. I'm Dancing As Fast As I Can is a strikingly honest look at a life gone off the rails. Throughout her journey, Gordon's hope and strength make her an incredible heroine worth rooting for.
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Verlag: Brand: Moyer Bell and its subsidiaries, 1995
ISBN 10: 155921287XISBN 13: 9781559212878
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Softcover. Zustand: Good. First Edition. On her fortieth birthday, Madame Wu carries out a decision she has been planning for a long time: she tells her husband that after twenty-four years their physical life together is now over and she wishes him to take a second wife. The House of Wu, one of the oldest and most revered in China, is thrown into an uproar by her decision, but Madame Wu will not be dissuaded and arranges for a young country girl to come take her place in bed. Elegant and detached, Madame Wu orchestrates this change as she manages everything in the extended household of more than sixty relatives and servants. Alone in her own quarters, she relishes her freedom and reads books she has never been allowed to touch. When her son begins English lessons, she listens, and is soon learning from the foreigner, a free-thinking priest named Brother Andre, who will change her life. Few books raise so many questions about the nature and roles of men and women, about self-discipline and happiness.
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Verlag: Brand: Moyer Bell and its subsidiaries, 2004
ISBN 10: 1559210915ISBN 13: 9781559210911
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Softcover. Zustand: Good. First Edition. Within this novel Ms. Buck paints the portrait of a poor woman living in a remote village whose joys are few and hardships are many. As the ancient traditions, which she bases her philosophies upon, begin to collide with the new ideals of the communist era, this peasant woman must find a balance between them and deal with the consequences.
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Verlag: Brand: Moyer Bell Ltd, 1996
ISBN 10: 1559211520ISBN 13: 9781559211529
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Softcover. Zustand: Good. Calligraphy means beautiful writing, and the twenty-six examples in this collection cover many centuries of this most decorative of traditional crafts. From the uncial religious books of the Dark Ages, through the illuminated manuscripts of medieval times, to the innovative designs of modern scribes, Michael Gullick traces the development of fine lettering in Europe and North America. The large format enables interested readers to examine every curve and line and to compare ancient and modern scripts in minute detail.A comprehensive guide to the calligrapher's skills, this book is sure to appeal to designers, historians and students of the art of writing.
Verlag: Brand: Moyer Bell and its subsidiaries, 2004
ISBN 10: 1559210354ISBN 13: 9781559210355
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Softcover. Zustand: Good. Imperial Woman is the fictionalized biography of the last Empress in China, Ci-xi, who began as a concubine of the Xianfeng Emperor and on his death became the de facto head of the Qing Dynasty until her death in 1908.Buck recreates the life of one of the most intriguing rulers during a time of intense turbulence.Tzu Hsi was born into one of the lowly ranks of the Imperial dynasty. According to custom, she moved to the Forbidden City at the age of seventeen to become one of hundreds of concubines. But her singular beauty and powers of manipulation quickly moved her into the position of Second Consort.Tzu Hsi was feared and hated by many in the court, but adored by the people. The Empress's rise to power (even during her husband's life) parallels the story of China's transition from the ancient to the modern way.
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Verlag: Brand: Moyer Bell and its subsidiaries, 1998
ISBN 10: 1559212551ISBN 13: 9781559212557
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Softcover. Zustand: Good. Returns fans of the late author's Jane Austen-like novels of manners and romance to her trademark locale, the English village of Barsetshire, where the talk is of gardens, war, and a headlong marriage between two young locals. Reprint. IP.
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Verlag: Brand: Moyer Bell Ltd, 1997
ISBN 10: 155921161XISBN 13: 9781559211611
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Softcover. Zustand: Good. First Edition. Decorative tiles for floors and walls are enjoying a revival among interior designers who frequently look to tiles of the past for inspiration. The twenty-six examples in this collection illustrate the imaginative development of hand-painted tiles in Europe from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century, and show how craftsmen changed their designs and created innovative decorative techniques through the ages. From the earliest medieval mosaic tiles to popular Dutch delftware and favorite Victorian and Edwardian designs, this is an intriguing book that will appeal to designers and historians as well as to the general reader.
Verlag: Brand: Moyer Bell and its subsidiaries, 1997
ISBN 10: 1559212047ISBN 13: 9781559212045
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Softcover. Zustand: Good. At the close of the Second World War, Sir Harry and Lady Waring gave permission to their niece, Leslie Winter, and her husband, Philip, to turn Beliers Priory - its service as a military hospital complete - into a preparatory school for boys. Two years later, as the plot of Love Among the Ruins begins to turn, the Priory School is flourishing.A cast of characters quickly gathers around the Winters: Charles Belton, newly-hired school master at the Priory School, and his elder brother, Captain Freddy Belton of the Royal Navy; Susan Dean, the Red Cross Depot Librarian and her sister, Jessica, an actress in thrall to the theatre; Lucy Marling, and her brother Oliver. The social order, no less than its political and economic counterparts, has been ravaged by the domestic tensions of the war. It, too, is in ruins, and the behavior of the young men and women is both bewildered and bewildering - a situation ripe with comic possibilities.
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Verlag: Brand: Moyer Bell and its subsidiaries, 2024
ISBN 10: 1559212365ISBN 13: 9781559212366
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Softcover. Zustand: Good. Later Edition. Set against the backdrop of two of Barsetshire's less frequented communities, this tale plays out the yearnings and hesitations of a characteristically cross-purposed set of lovers. Each village is home to one of the two families whose unmarried children provide the romantic interest. As the novel ends, the heroine Edith eventually chooses travel over men and leaves for America.
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Verlag: Brand: Moyer Bell and its subsidiaries, 1996
ISBN 10: 1559211733ISBN 13: 9781559211734
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Softcover. Zustand: Good. The measurement of manners--as devotees of Anthony Trollope are well aware--can offer readers an amusing course in the vanities and verities of the human heart. Among modern novelists who have taken up the instruments of sophisticated observation, Angela Thrikell stands out as a droll yet sympathetic chronicler of town and country. Her intuitive grasp of the comedy of social relations among the cultivated gentry of 20th-century Britain, and the elegantly entertaining manner in which she translates her intuitions to the page, has won her a legion of dedicated and well-deserved admirers.O, These Men, These Men! first published in 1935 and long out of print, is one of Angela Thirkell's few non-Barsetshire novels. Believed to be something of a roman-a-clef, it deftly chronicles the sorrows and renewals, the heartbreak and graduation of happiness in the life of a refined young woman who has weathered the end of an ill-starred marriage.
Verlag: Brand: Moyer Bell Ltd, 1988
ISBN 10: 0918825806ISBN 13: 9780918825803
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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Unabridged. A lively retelling of the ancient myths includes Heracles' labors, the Olympian tales, and the myths of Sisyphus, Midas, the Argonauts, and many others.
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Verlag: Brand: Moyer Bell, 2024
ISBN 10: 1559212837ISBN 13: 9781559212830
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Softcover. Zustand: Good. For Alice Thomas Ellis, Wales was a magical place of unrestricted freedom and exploration. Through her recollections, the acclaimed novelist evokes the stark beauty of the Welsh landscape along with its history, legends, and people. Patrick Sutherland's 90 black-and-white images complement the text and make this shared journey even more compelling.
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Verlag: Brand: Moyer Bell and its subsidiaries, 1995
ISBN 10: 1559211504ISBN 13: 9781559211505
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Softcover. Zustand: Good. Uncorrected Proof. In the midst of World War Two, the Beltons of Harefield Park find themselves "living on overdrafts to an extent that even they found alarming." It seems they may have to sell the family estate- for which, during wartime, there is little demand.Their prayers are answered, however, in the unlikely form of Miss Sparling, the dauntless headmistress of the recently evacuated Hoisers' Girls' Foundation School, who just happens to be looking for a country mansion to let. THE HEADMISTRESS, first published in 1945 and long unavailable, is typical Thirkell: charming, witty, and refreshingly urbane.
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Verlag: Brand: Moyer Bell and its subsidiaries, 2023
ISBN 10: 1559212977ISBN 13: 9781559212977
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Softcover. Zustand: Good. Love and marriage and delightful eccentrics thrive in Angela Thirkells fictitious English county of Barsetshire. In this novel, Lady Gwendolyn Harcourt, sister of the Duke of Towers, marries elderly Rev. Oriel of Harefield, while a romance prospers between Lord Mellings and Lavinia Merton. Thirkells gently meandering account of the diversions of Barsetshire society leaves nothing to be desired. New York Herald Tribune.
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Verlag: Brand: Moyer Bell Limited, 1987
ISBN 10: 0918825148ISBN 13: 9780918825148
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Softcover. Zustand: Good. Nineteen different translations of a single poem with comments on each version by Eliot Weinberger and introduction contributed by Octavio Paz.
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Verlag: Brand: Moyer Bell and its subsidiaries, 1996
ISBN 10: 1559211830ISBN 13: 9781559211833
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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. First Edition. The confusing passage to adulthood is the heart of Glancy's slender, poignant and powerful story of an innocent, deeply religious teenage girl. The second oldest of nine children, Rachel Hume learned to read by deciphering highway signs as her family followed her father, an itinerant railroad worker, across the bountiful countrysides of Louisiana and Texas. Now nearly grown, Rachel is a committed Christian; her world is still defined by her deep attachment to her mother and God?until she falls in love with a young soldier. But the shelter of her family's love leaves newly married Rachel little prepared for the demands of her husband, Jim Satterethwait, and life in the army barracks, surrounded by people who drink, commit adultery and neglect their children. Rachel's problems are further complicated when she becomes pregnant and barely survives a difficult childbirth that is succeeded by post-partum depression. Instead of turning to her patient husband, Rachel retreats to her childhood home, where she must finally learn to face the world? --Publishers Weekly (1996).
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Verlag: Brand: Moyer Bell and its subsidiaries, 2024
ISBN 10: 1559212357ISBN 13: 9781559212359
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Softcover. Zustand: Good. First Edition. Angela Thirkell's stylish prose and deft portrayal of the human spectacle in the imaginary county of Barsetshire continue in this comedy of manners. Set in the mid-1950s, following the upheaval of war and its aftermath, this novel provides a canvas for the comings and goings of cultivated gentry. Many old friends from previous novels appear, and, as always, romance and gossip play a central role in the plot.
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Verlag: Brand: Moyer Bell and its subsidiaries, 2010
ISBN 10: 1559213957ISBN 13: 9781559213950
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Softcover. Zustand: Good. First Edition. THE CHRISTMAS MYSTERY transcends all barriers. We all love a beadtime story and here we have a philosophical meditation wrapped in the simple clothes of a journey across Europe to Bethlehem. The qualities of wonder and enquiry that readers loved in SOPHIE'S WORLD are as strong as ever in this beautiful and mysterious story. This has a metaphysical matrix that brings in God and doctrine in a way that will appeals to believers and non-believers alike. A boy called Joachim acquires a strange old Advent calender - and uncovers from it the story of a girl called Elisabet, who disappeared from her home fifty years earlier. Elisabet has been taken back through time and right across Europe to Palestine, to see the Holy Family in Bethlehem. Two thousand years of history flash by, and angels, shepherds and wise men join her on her joyful pilgrimage. It is Joachim who, through the Advent calendar, makes it possible for her to come home.
Verlag: Brand: Moyer Bell and its subsidiaries, 1999
ISBN 10: 155921273XISBN 13: 9781559212731
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Softcover. Zustand: Good. In this mid-century installment of her much-loved modern Barsetshire chronicles, Angela Thirkell weaves two colorful strands into the fabric of a charming plot. The first continues her narrative of the social a romantic entanglements of the generations in her fictional stretch of English countryside, which, as the novel opens, has been cast into mourning by the death of King George VI.Soon enough, however, local gossip takes center stage, and other pieces of news, the appointment of a new Rector, "Tubby" Fewling from Northbridge, and the return to the vicinity of the beautiful Rose Fairweather ("A better antidote to true grief for a departed king could not have been imagined") begin to occupy the minds (and tongues!) of denizens. The second strand of this captivating novel is nothing less than a Barsetshire fairy tale. It begins when Canon Fewling meets, among his new parishioners, Margot Phelps, the impoverished spinster daughter of a retired admiral. Led by Rose Fairweather, the women of the community take it upon themselves to treat Margot to a make-over. It begins with hair and clothes and ends with her self-confidence that leads everyone to see her in a new light. Like Cinderella, Margot Phelps is transformed, and all her fortunes, from the romantic to the financial to even the literary, are happily enhanced.
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Verlag: Brand: Moyer Bell and its subsidiaries, 2023
ISBN 10: 1559212497ISBN 13: 9781559212496
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Softcover. Zustand: Good. First Edition. Older and wiser than the usual betrothed, Herbert Choyce and Miss Merriman are in no hurry to get married. But, in this 27th of Thirkell's Barsetshire novels, the enthusiasm of friends and neighbors sweeps them up in a rush to the altar, with unexpected results. Praise for Angela Thirkell: "There's just no stopping after one novel." - Publishers Weekly.
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Verlag: Brand: Moyer Bell Ltd ,U.S., 1987
ISBN 10: 0918825385ISBN 13: 9780918825384
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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. B/W Illus (illustrator). The story of the famous testimony of a paid U.S. government agent who admitted he lied durung Senator McCarthy's HUAC hearings. His story was praised as important reading by such people as John Steinbeck, Drew Pearson, and George Kennan.
Verlag: Brand: Moyer Bell and its subsidiaries, 1996
ISBN 10: 1559211598ISBN 13: 9781559211598
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Softcover. Zustand: Good. Uncorrected Proof. A sweeter demon doesn't exist than Tony Morland - a 12-year-old with a gift for disconcerting remarks and getting what he wants from his mother. Boys will be boys, and little Morland is no exception, boasting, bragging, breaking windows, messing about in boats and demanding breakfast in bed, all very much to the despair of his mother, Laura. Tony is desperate for a bicycle and although Laura is certain he'll come home in a coffin after one of his rides, Tony is determined to make her concede. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
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Verlag: Brand: Moyer Bell Ltd, 1991
ISBN 10: 1559210419ISBN 13: 9781559210416
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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Revised, Expanded, Subsequent. Uses artifacts, paintings, and drawings from the hunters of the Ice Age to prove that the origins of thought, the use of symbolic notation, and the development of language occurred much earlier than scientists had previously speculated.
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Verlag: Brand: Moyer Bell and its subsidiaries, 1999
ISBN 10: 1559212640ISBN 13: 9781559212649
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Softcover. Zustand: new. One of my favorites of Pym's novels, it turns a shrewd, mocking, but always affectionate eye on English country life 30 years ago. Pym's fans will feel completely at home when they step into the Jane Austen-like lives of Harriet and Belinda Bede.- Christian Science Monitor.
Verlag: Brand: Moyer Bell and its subsidiaries, 1995
ISBN 10: 1559210869ISBN 13: 9781559210867
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Softcover. Zustand: Good. First Edition. East Wind: West Wind is told from the eyes of a traditional Chinese girl, Kwei-lan, married to a Chinese medical doctor, educated abroad. The story follows Kwei-lan as she begins to accept different points of view from the western world, and re-discovers her sense of self through this coming-of-age narrative.
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Verlag: Brand: Moyer Bell Ltd, 1993
ISBN 10: 1559210966ISBN 13: 9781559210966
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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Booth-Johnes, Roderick (illustrator). Collective nouns; Dictionaries; English language; Non-Fiction; Reference; Terms and phrases.
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Verlag: Brand: Moyer Bell and its subsidiaries, 2007
ISBN 10: 0918825016ISBN 13: 9780918825018
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Softcover. Zustand: Good. First Edition. Simone Weil (1909-1943) was a teacher, classical scholar, philosopher, political activist and seeker of the truth. She confronted the rootlessness of modern life and the death of the spirit in an age of materialism. Her writing was visionary and her vision, radical.Born in France, a contemporary of Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus, Weil inspired T.S. Eliot to say of her, We must simply expose ourselves to the personality of a woman of genius, of a kind of genius akin to that of a saint. Today, nearly sixty years after her death, her work has, perhaps, an even greater immediacy and relevance. This book is a collection of the best of her writings from The Notebooks of Simone Weil, Oppression and Liberty and Gravity and Grace.
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Verlag: Brand: Moyer Bell Ltd., 1996
ISBN 10: 1559211687ISBN 13: 9781559211680
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Softcover. Zustand: Good. Young Peony is sold into a rich Chinese household as a bondmaid - an awkward role in which she is more a servant, but less a daughter. As she grows into a lovely, provocative young woman, Peony falls in love with the family's only son. However, tradition forbids them to wed. How she resolves her love for him and her devotion to her adoptive family unfolds in this profound tale, based on true events in China over a century ago.
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Verlag: Brand: Moyer Bell and its subsidiaries, 2005
ISBN 10: 1559213876ISBN 13: 9781559213875
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hardcover. Zustand: Good. First Edition. In the early autumn of 1962 David Marnin a young Foreign Service officer arrives in Saigon to be the Ambassadors aide Though young and inexperienced he brings to the job a keen intelligence and a rich sense of adventure He soon becomes involved with one of the most beautiful Vietnamese women Unforgettably depicted are scores of characters ambitious journalists Saigon bargirls diplomats clandestine agents a disenchanted general a Catholic bishop Buddhist monks the Secretary of Defense the Joint Chiefs of Staff and one truly unforgettable Southern belleThis important novel demonstrates brilliantly how and why the United States engineered the 1963 coup that overthrew the South Vietnamese government and resulted in the assassination of President Ngo Dinh Diem and his brother These actions irrevocably enmeshed us in a situation from which there was no turning back They led to a full scale war that should never have been fought the way it was a war that reshaped American Asian and world history.
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Verlag: Brand: Moyer Bell Ltd., 1991
ISBN 10: 1559210540ISBN 13: 9781559210546
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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. New Edition. This is a record of a love-affair between a lady and a shop. They never met, but it lasted for twenty years and brought out the best of them both for all that time.<br /><br />The shop was Marks &amp; Co, a London bookseller dealing in rare and secondhand books. The lady was a merry New Yorker who didn't believe in being impersonal. Instead of writing orders for books, she wrote letters, first to Frank Doel, the manager, then to members of his staff and his family as well; and because when the correspondence started on October 5, 1949, Britain was still enduring rationing, she sent delicious parcels of tongue, eggs, biscuits and so on. Very British and correct to start with, Frank Doel and his staff soon responded with astonished pleasure, and the resulting relationship was a delight to both sides.<br /><br />The correspondence ended only with Frank Doel's death, which was followed by the closing of Marks &amp; Co. It is preserved in this book, which has made it famous: so famous that in 1981 it was shaped into a play by James Roose-Evans, to the great joy of audiences in London's West End and on New York's Broadway.<br /><br />When she was a girl Helene Hanff wanted to be a playwright herself and studied at the Theatre Guild after winning an award. She has told the comic story of this ambition in her witty book Under-foot in Show Business. Later she became a script-writer for television. She has also written an enchanting introduction to New York called The Apple of My Eye, and an account of her first visit to England, which took place after the publication of 84, Charing Cross Road, to which she gave the proud title The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street.