84, Charing Cross Road

Name: 84, Charing Cross Road
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Rating: 3 (2 reviews)
Author: Helene Hanff
ISBN: 9781501964077

Author: Helene Hanff

Narrator: Davina Porter, Jill Tanner, Simon Prebble, Christina Moore, John Franklyn-Robbins, Barbara Rosenblat, Barbara Caruso

Unabridged: 1 hr 55 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 03/24/2017

Categories: Nonfiction, Literary Collections

Synopsis

A heartwarming love story about people who love books for readers who love books

This funny, poignant, classic love story unfolds through a series of letters between Helene Hanff, 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 charming, sentimental friendship based on their common love for books. Discover the relationship that has touched the hearts of thousands of readers around the world, and was the basis for a film starring Anthony Hopkins and Anne Bancroft.

“Those who have read The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, a novel comprised of only letters between the characters, will see how much that best-seller owes 84, Charing Cross Road.”—Medium.com

About Helene Hanff

Helene Hanff (1915–1997) was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In the 1940s and ’50s she wrote plays and television scripts in New York City, but found little success until her best-known book, 84, Charing Cross Road, was published in 1970. The book was a smash hit and has been adapted for the radio, stage, film, and television. Hanff also wrote a number of books for young readers, including The Movers and Shakes and Terrible Thomas.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Lisa of Troy on February 12, 2024

When I was last in London, I dropped by 84, Charring Cross Road. Guess what it is now? McDonald's! Put that on as one of life's major disappointments! 84, Charing Cross Road is a book which contains selected correspondence between a New York book lover in New York City (Helene Hanff) and a used bookse......more

Goodreads review by Glenn on November 11, 2021

After hearing about this book for years, I finally stumbled upon a $2 ex-libris copy earlier this week at a used book sale. And without pausing I bought it. How appropriate! It consists of the correspondence, from the late 1940s until the late 1960s, between New York writer and bibliophile Helene Ha......more

Goodreads review by Ilse on June 06, 2023

A love letter to letters and books I do love second-hand 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. 84, Charing Cross Road is a sheer delight for lovers of boo......more

Goodreads review by Candi on June 21, 2022

It’s about time I finally cracked this charming little book open. I’ve had it sitting on the nightstand for nearly a decade. A tribute to bookstores, booklovers, and England, this epistolary novel delivered exactly what I expected it to! If Goodreads hadn’t already confirmed what I suspected, namely......more

Goodreads review by Regina on September 24, 2021

I often jump straight to the down and dirty of a book, but please allow me to shake things up by presenting the lithe and lovely. - 84, Charing Cross Road is an absolutely delightful epistolary memoir made up of letters exchanged between NYC-based author Helene Hanff and an antiquarian bookseller in......more