The beloved classic—a twenty-year correspondence between an American writer and a British bookseller—now with a foreword by Virginia Evans, author of million-copy #1 New York Times bestseller The Correspondent

“A perfect book . . . I would have read a thousand pages more.” —Virginia Evans, from the Foreword

A Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition, with flaps and deckle-edged paper

This charming classic, first published in 1970, brings together twenty years of correspondence between Helene Hanff, a freelance writer living in New York City, and an antiquarian bookseller located at 84 Charing Cross Road, London. Through the years, though never meeting and separated both geographically and culturally, they share a winsome, sentimental friendship based on their mutual love for books. Their relationship, captured so acutely in these letters—and also in the 1987 film this book inspired, starring Anne Bancroft and Anthony Hopkins (and Judi Dench as the bookseller’s wife)—is one that will grab your heart and refuse to let go.