84CharingCrossRoad查令十字街84号

• It housed a music and CD store in thΒιβλιοθήκη Baidu early 1990s, and later other retail outlets. It housed a Med Kitchen restaurant as late as 2009. It now houses a Belgian restaurant.
Comments
• The book is called “the Bible of booklovers”.
• A charmer. Will beguile（使着迷） an hour of your time put you in tune with mankind. — The New York Times
• Hanff did finally visit Charing Cross Road and the empty but still standing shop in the summer of 1971, a trip recorded in her 1973 book The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street. A circular brass plaque on the building that now stands on the shop's former site acknowledges the story.
• Their letters included discussions about topics as diverse as the sermons of John Donne, how to make Yorkshire Pudding, the Brooklyn Dodgers, and the coronation of Elizabeth II.
Main idea
• Hanff, in search of obscure classics and British literature titles she had been unable to find in New York City, noticed an ad in the Saturday Review of Literature and first contacted the shop in 1949, and it fell to Doel to fulfill her requests.
Marks & Co.
The building's site today
• The five-story building where Marks & Co. was located during the novel's action still exists, and has a small round gold-colored plaque mentioning the novel on a pillar of the outer wall.
• A generous little book about books that will charm you out of your bookstacks… It’s a gem. And don’t miss it. — Saturday Review
84, Charing Cross Road
84, Charing Cross Road（查令 十字街 84号） is a 1970 book by Helene Hanff, later made into a stage play, television play and film, about the twenty-year correspondence between her and Frank Doel, chief buyer of Marks & Co（马 克斯与科恩书店）, antiquarian （古文物研究者） booksellers located at the eponymous（使 得名的） address in London, England.
• In time, a long-distance friendship evolved, not only between the two, but between Hanff and other staff members as well, with an exchange of Christmas packages, birthday gifts, and food parcels to compensate for post-World War II food shortages in Britain.
The author
• Helene Hanff (1916 – 1997) was an American writer. Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She spent most of the time in the island of Manhattan. Her life was down and out（穷困潦倒）. Her career, which saw her move from writing unproduced plays to helping create some of the earliest television dramas to becoming a kind of professional New Yorker, goes far beyond the charm of her most famous book.
• Hanff postponed visiting her English friends until too late; Doel died in December 1968 from peritonitis（腹 膜炎） from a burst appendix, and the bookshop eventually closed.