![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She sent off a letter containing both a list of requests and no small amount of trepidation: “The phrase ‘antiquarian booksellers’ scares me somewhat,” she wrote, “as I equate ‘antique’ with expensive. specialized in antiquarian and out-of-print books. In 1950, Helene Hanff spotted a small ad for an English bookshop in the back pages of The Saturday Review of Literature. (Actually, that’s not such a bad thing, is it?) If you watch the movie before reading the book, the voices of Anne Bancroft and Anthony Hopkins are likely to penetrate your mind as you read and you might have trouble picturing the bookseller’s wife as anything other than a shy, young Judi Dench. An exchange of letters between a New York City script writer and an antiquarian bookseller in London, 84, Charing Cross Road takes less time to read–under an hour–than it takes to watch the film, which runs about an hour and a half.īut be careful. ![]()
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