Boken er en brevveksling mellom den amerikanske forfatterinnen Helen Hanff og hennes favorittantikvar i London 1950-70. En formell innledning avløses av intime og sjarmerende kjærlighetsbrev mellom den bokelskende amerikaneren og antikvaren Frank Doel. Boken representerer dessuten et viktig historisk dokument om engelsk etterkrigstid.
... Helene Hanff, later made into a stage play, television play, and film, about the twenty-year correspondence between the author and Frank Doel, chief buyer of Marks & Co antiquarian booksellers, located at the eponymous address in London, England. Directed by David Hugh Jones. With Anne Bancroft, Anthony Hopkins, Judi Dench, Jean De Baer. True story of a transatlantic business correspondence about used books ... 84 Charing Cross Road is a 1987 British-American drama film directed by David Jones. The screenplay by Hugh Whitemore is based on a play by James Roose-Evans, which itself was an adaptation of the 1970 epistolary memoir of the same name by Helene Hanff, a compilation of letters between herself and Frank Doel dating from 1949 to 1968. 84 Charing Cross Road 1986 16+ 1h 39m Romantic Favorites Feisty New York writer Helene mails a note to a small London bookshop, sparking a touching and humorous correspondence with reserved bookseller Frank. 84, Charing Cross Road book. Read 5,690 ...