What a story 84 Charing Street is

Unable to stand the expensive and vulgar antique bookstores in New York, the impoverished writer Helen wrote a letter to Max & Cohen's at 84 Charing Cross Street in London (later described by Helen's friend who sent him to scout for London as a "Dickensian-era bookstore") to buy some old books at the address on the Saturday Literary Review, asking for some old books.

Soon, the reply and the books she asked for dwarfed Helen's bookshelf. The trust and joy of both parties was quickly reached, except that Helen had a little trouble, and she was a woman who couldn't even figure out how to pay bills and change, let alone convert pounds into dollars. Frank Del, the manager of Max & Cohen's bookstore, in addition to meeting her request for books, also prepared invoices for both sterling and US dollars.

With the help of warm acquaintances and eloquent letters, Helen and Frank were captured across the ocean.

Britain in the early fifties was in ruins, and supplies were rationed. Helen sent ham, eggs, and sausages from the United States to bookstore clerks, so that they could eat "whole and large" meat that they had not seen in a long time. Frank was no one to be ungrateful, as he began to travel all over England, visiting mansions, buying new products for the few bookstores in stock, and breaking through iron shoes in search of rare books for her.

As the days passed, the letters became the ubiquitous narration of their peaceful and flowing lives.

Helen didn't want to go to London and look at the bookstore to see Frank. She finally had her own savings, and the Queen's accession to the throne had discounted the cost of going to England. It seemed that she could make the trip, but her teeth forced her to stay in New York.

She had no choice but to write to Frank: "I'm with my teeth, and the dentist is on his honeymoon, and his wedding expenses are my ......”

Frank had no choice but to bless her and Queen Elizabeth, who had just ascended the throne.

Books are bought, letters are written.

On this day, Helen's letter was answered three months later, and she was told that Frank had died of illness on December 22, 1968.

Helen immediately rushed to 84 Charing Cross Street. When she walked into Mark's bookstore, which was about to be demolished, it had been twenty years since she first wrote a letter here.

She smiled and said to the empty bookstore, "I'm here, Frank, I'm finally here." ”

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The main collapse of this book is to be written around the love story of two people.,Encounter some trivial things in life.,After being oppressed by reality, the two groups of people reacted to it.。

It is written around the love story of two people, two strangers, who have a lot of correspondence, and finally go to find each other and the two are together.

The book is written around the story of a book seller, a poor writer who likes to read, but she can't afford it, and the store manager gives her a book.

This book is written around a love epic that spans half a century, and the love between the hero and heroine is very great.

The main story should be that the three countries did a series of things to harm the people in order to divide the world and control the people.

Beloved by book lovers around the world, this book chronicles the relationship between New York writer Helen Hanff and Frank Del, a bookseller at Max and Cohen's Bookstore in London. The two sides have never met in the past 20 years, and they are thousands of miles apart, but their deep affection can be irreversible. Most of the letters in the book were written by hand, and were not originally intended for others to read, and they might never have been published if it had not been for the unfortunate early death of Frank Del, but they are works of spontaneous feelings, some interesting books, and the correspondence between the old American lady and the English gentleman can be seen in the different temperament styles, and the reading is smooth and interesting.

The author, Helen Hanff, was born in Philadelphia on April 15, 1916. He spent most of his years in Manhattan, and his life was ruined. Helen Hanff's most important work during her lifetime was to revise scripts for the troupe; He has also written scripts for several TV series.

His major publications include the diary-style New York City guidebook "The Apple in My Eye", the autobiography "The Legacy of Q", "New York", "The Countess of Bloomsbury", and a series of juvenile American history books. He died of pneumonia in New York City on April 9, 1997.

On Thursday morning, I spent two hours reading the book, 84 Charing Cross Street, and another two hours writing a letter about the book, and the person on the other side of the letter asked me to say what I thought in the letter, and I said it. This book has been dubbed the "Bible for Book Lovers" by book critics, but after reading the whole book, I first feel that it is not worthy of the term "Bible of the key". After the Second World War, Miss Helen Hanff in New York (this translation is very good, the surname and the surname are the same as the side capital) corresponded with Marx and Cohen's bookstore in London for 20 years, and during these years, the old-fashioned lady often sent things to the staff of the bookstore in England who were short of supplies after the Second World War, and the bookstore gentleman was also very conscientious to find the books that the book lovers wanted.

In the past 20 years, she has established a deep friendship with the staff of the bookstore, especially Mr. Miss, the letter from the lady is humorous and funny, Mr. reply to the gentleman with grace, 20 years of correspondence is the result of the customer's enthusiasm for good books and the responsibility of the clerk, and the "book lover" in the laurel is ** here.

The correspondence between the two ends of the Atlantic is touching, but far from universal, and perhaps the pursuit of good books is the same, but I disagree with the fact that the young lady often clears out the books that she feels are meaningless, these books are worth collecting and reading countless times, which is why I disagree with it being called the "Bible", it is not a universal thing. The rest of the rhetoric may be a little more extreme. My first impression of this book was:

It is similar to the movie "Mary and Marx", the same long-term correspondence, the same mutual support, the same not seeing the last face, they are all so consistent, and even the spring and fortune are so similar that they are misunderstood as love.

The book is called the Bible of the Reader, and there is no ambiguity at all. "The good guy who sold me all the books died a few months ago, and the owner of the bookstore died, but the bookstore is still there. If you happen to pass by 84 Charing Cross, can you kiss it for me?

I owe it so much. "A pure, sincere feeling. Across the Atlantic and life and death, he has been deeply cultivated for 20 years, and the correspondence has been fierce.

Simply buying and selling books has "breeded" warmth, and it has upgraded from simple book relationship to love relationship. Even if he doesn't have enough materials, he sends a lot of things to the other party in addition to buying books. This is the rare warmth between people at present.

What I send you, you will eat it up in a week at most, and you don't even hope to keep it for the New YearBut the gift you gave me will be with me day and night, and I will not be blind until I dieI can even leave it to the world with a smile on my face. ”<

I'm shallow. I didn't read every word of Zhiyun carefully, and I didn't take this book as the Bible like other book lovers, and carefully found every book in it to read. At first I just wanted to read the book.

Swallowing the dates, endure the roughness and boredom to read. But gradually, I took the fight to think that I was cheating in such an irresponsible, pretending way of reading, and I still read it to tears.

I'm shallow. I can't say how much I understand. I don't even quite understand the story, location, and time. But looking at the understated letter, looking at the boring story, in the end, I don't know why I was sad and shocked.

It seems to understand the feeling of a good book and other books that you like. Sometimes you don't feel very addicted when you read a good book, but it is like blood injected into your body and slowly flowing into your heart. In the end, you don't understand anything, but your heart feels the feelings and stories that exist.

If you happen to pass through 84 Charing Cross Street, please give me a kiss, I owe her a great ......”

Once upon a time, I also had a dream of opening a bookstore, imagining how beautiful it would be to spend time in the book room every day.

The book tells the story of Helen, a poor and bookish female writer in the United States. In the past 20 years, Hanff and Frank, an English bookseller, have exchanged more than 80 letters and collided with ideas, but they have never been able to meet the warm story of each other.

Whether they were discussing books or buying or selling books, their deep friendship was heartfelt.

I love this kind of friendship that doesn't involve the privacy of life, but is simple and pure, and the trust between them flows between the lines.

Maugham once said: The most interesting thing is the letters, which are not disguised and exude the taste of life without much embellishment.

Suddenly, I had an idea that after the children became literate, I could also tell them a lot of principles of life by writing letters, just like "38 Letters from Rockefeller to His Son" is full of expectations for his son and the wisdom passed on.

Although I do not have the achievements of creating wealth, there are many things in life that we cannot explain in words, but there is a natural sense of sincerity and convincing in my letters.

For more than 30 years, people have read it, written it, acted in it, greeted each other and warmed each other in this warm relationship.

I hope you can also feel the warmth between people in this book, which has existed in every corner of the world.

Book Excerpts: I like old books with inscriptions on the title page and annotations in the margins; I love the feeling of reading with my predecessors, sometimes in my chest, sometimes in my ears.

A good book is like true love, it may be love at first sight, but the distant understanding and sympathy of life and death and the son becoming happy, holding the hand of the son and growing old together always take a long time.

What I send you, you will eat and wipe clean in a week at most, and you don't even expect to keep it for the New YearAnd the gift you have given me will be with me day and night until deathI can even leave it to the world with a smile on my face.