84, Charing Cross Road

Helene Hanff
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This charming classic, first published in 1970, brings together twenty years of correspondence between Helene Hanff, a freelance writer living in New York City, and a used-book dealer in London. 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 will grab your heart and not let go. [text from the back cover of the book]
Genres: NonfictionBooks About BooksMemoirBiographyBook ClubAudiobookBiography MemoirBritish LiteratureHistoryHistorical
106 Pages

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