纪念作者诞辰一百周年（1916.4.15-2016.4.15） 中文世界首次推出精装珍藏版 译者陈建铭修订数十处译文，精益求精 读库御用设计师艾莉女士担纲设计 内文一百克玉龙纯质纸双色印刷 世界最大圣经印刷厂南京爱德，为爱书人印制圣经 2016中文精装珍藏版将会是最美的版本！ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1949年的纽约，曼哈顿一间没有暖气的公寓里，三十三岁的穷作家海莲，偶然看到一则伦敦旧书店的广告，凭着一股莽撞劲，她开始给这个伦敦地址写信。这一写，就写了二十年。 很多年后，她和这家书店的通信集，被称为“爱书人的圣经”，不断演绎。而那家书店的地址——查令十字街84号，已经成为全球爱书人之间的一个暗号。 三十多年来，人们读它、写它、演它，在这段传奇里彼此问候，相互取暖。

'This book is the very simple story of the love affair between Miss Helene Hanff of New York and Messrs Marks and Co, sellers of rare and secondhand books, at 84 Charing Cross Road, London'. DAILY TELEGRAPH Told in a series of letters in 84 CHARING CROSS ROAD and then in diary form in the second part THE DUCHESS OF BLOOMSBURY STREET, this true story has touched the hearts of thousands.

84, Charing Cross Road is a charming record of bibliophilia, cultural difference, and imaginative sympathy. For 20 years, an outspoken New York writer and a rather more restrained London bookseller carried on an increasingly touching correspondence. In her first letter to Marks & Co., Helene Hanff encloses a wish list, but warns, "The phrase 'antiquarian booksellers' scares me somewhat, as I equate 'antique' with expensive." Twenty days later, on October 25, 1949, a correspondent identified only as FPD let Hanff know that works by Hazlitt and Robert Louis Stevenson would be coming under separate cover. When they arrive, Hanff is ecstatic -- but unsure she'll ever conquer "bilingual arithmetic." By early December 1949, Hanff is suddenly worried that the six-pound ham she's sent off to augment British rations will arrive in a kosher office. But only when FPD turns out to have an actual name, Frank Doel, does the real fun begin. Two years later, Hanff is outraged that Marks & Co. has dared to send an abridged Pepys diary. "i enclose two limp singles, i will make do with this thing till you find me a real Pepys. THEN i will rip up this ersatz book, page by page, AND WRAP THINGS IN IT." Nonetheless, her postscript asks whether they want fresh or powdered eggs for Christmas. Soon they're sharing news of Frank's family and Hanff's career. No doubt their letters would have continued, but in 1969, the firm's secretary informed her that Frank Doel had died. In the collection's penultimate entry, Helene Hanff urges a tourist friend, "If you happen to pass by 84, Charing Cross Road, kiss it for me. I owe it so much."