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84 Charing Cross Street
Literature查令十字街84号
(u. S.) Helene Hanff
In New York in 1949, in an unheated apartment in Manhattan, the thirty-three-year-old poor writer Helen accidentally saw an advertisement for a London second-hand bookstore. With a reckless impulse, she began to write to this London address. It took twenty years to write this. Many years later, the collection of her correspondence with this bookstore has been called the "bibliophile's bible" and continues to be interpreted. The address of that bookstore, 84 Charing Cross Street, has become a secret code among book lovers around the world. For more than thirty years, people have read, written, and performed it, greeting each other and warming each other in this legend.
In New York in 1949, in an unheated apartment in Manhattan, the thirty-three-year-old poor writer Helen accidentally saw an advertisement for a London second-hand bookstore. With a reckless impulse, she began to write to this London address. It took twenty years to write this. Many years later, the collection of her correspondence with this bookstore has been called the "bibliophile's bible" and continues to be interpreted. The address of that bookstore, 84 Charing Cross Street, has become a secret code among book lovers around the world. For more than thirty years, people have read, written, and performed it, greeting each other and warming each other in this legend.