description: 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 so acutely in these letters, is one that has touched the hearts of thousands of readers around the world.
language: English
title: 84, Charing Cross Road
titlecomplete: 84, Charing Cross Road
characters: Frank Doel, Helene Hanff
genres: Classics, British Literature, Historical, Books About Books, History, Biography Memoir, Biography, Audiobook, Memoir, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 78706
places: New York City, New York, London, England
publisher: Hoffmann und Campe