"84, Charing Cross Road" - Book Reference List

84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff

Clearly, Hanff and I have different taste in books. Her tastes leaned toward the antiquarian. The only book that I have read from her requests to Marks & Co. is Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. And perhaps The Canterbury Tales in high school- I cannot recall exactly. I definitely would not attempt to read anything in Latin (I can recall that from high school).

Surprisingly, our differences did not impact my enjoyment of the book. The collection of letters is absolutely charming. In fact, I think that I may give a couple of the books a try because she thought so highly of them. I have attempted to find comparable versions of the books Hanff requested on Amazon.com (see below). She had very particular tastes - requesting specific versions based on editor, illustrator, publisher, etc.

Have you read any of the books?

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Hanff, Helene: 84, Charing Cross Road

• 84, Charing Cross Road

Austen, Jane: Pride And Prejudice

• Pride And Prejudice

Arkwright, Francis (translator): Memoirs of the Duke de Saint-Simon

• Memoirs of the Duke de Saint-Simon

Belloc, Hillaire: Essays

• The Best of Hilaire Bell The book doesn't mention a specific book.
  

Catullus (Loeb Classics)

• The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus, improved 7/4/2009: I believe that this is the Richard Burton translation that sent Hanff under the bed.

Chaucer, Geoffrey: The Canterbury Tales (leather bound) translated by Hill, published by Longmans in 1934

• The Canterbury Tales (regular paperback)
  

Delafield, E.M.: Diary Of A Provincial Lady

• Diary Of A Provincial Lady

Dobson, Austen (editor): The Sir Roger De Coverley Papers

• The Sir Roger de Coverley Papers, from the Spectator

Donne, John: Sermons

• John Donne - The Major Works: including Songs and Sonnets and sermons (Oxford World's Classics)

Grahame, Kenneth: The Wind in the Willows (Shepard illustrations)

• The Wind in the Willows (Signet Classics)

Greek New Testament

• A Reader's Greek New Testament: 2nd Edition

Grolier Bible

Hazlitt, William: Selected Essays Of William Hazlitt 1778 To 1830 (Nonesuch Press edition)

• Selected Essays of William Hazlitt 1778 to 1830

Horace - Loeb Classics

• The Complete Odes and Epodes (Oxford World's Classics)

Hunt, Leigh: Essays.

• Leigh Hunt: Selected Writings (Fyfield Books)

Johnson, Samuel: On Shakespeare (introduction by Walter Raleigh)

• Johnson on Shakespeare: essays and notes

Jonson, Ben: Timber

• Timber: Or, Discoveries Made Upon Men and Matter

Lamb, Charles: Essays of Elia

• Essays of Elia / by Charles Lamb

Landor, Walter Savage: Vol II of The Works and Life of Walter Savage Landor Imaginary Conversations

• Imaginary Conversations and Poems - A Selection

Latin Anglican New Testament

Latin Vulgate Bible / Latin Vulgate New Testament

• Novum Testamentum Latine (Latin Vulgate New Testament, The Latin New Testament) (Latin Edition)

Latin Vulgate Dictionary

• Dictionary of the Vulgate New Testament (Nouum Testamentum Latine): A Dictionary of Ecclesiastical Latin

Leonard, R. M. (editor): The Book-Lover's Anthology

• THE BOOK-LOVER'S ANTHOLOGY

Newman, John Henry: Discourses on the Scope and Nature of University Education. "'Idea of a University"

• The idea of a university: defined and illustrated

Pepys, Samuel: Pepys Diary

• Diary of Samuel Pepys - Volume 04: March/April 1659-1660

Plato's Four Socratic Dialogues

• The Four Socratic Dialogues of Plato

Quiller-Couch, Arthur: The Oxford Book Of English Verse

• The Oxford Book of English Verse 1250 - 1900

Quiller-Couch, Arthur: The Pilgrim's Way

• The Pilgrims' Way: A Little Scrip of Good Counsel for Travellers

Quiller-Couch, Arthur: Oxford Book of English Prose

• The Oxford Book of English Prose

Sappho - Loeb Classics

• The Complete Poems of Sappho

Sterne, Lauence: The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

• The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (Oxford World's Classics)

Stevenson, Robert Louis: Virginibus Puerisque

• Virginibus Puerisque and Other Essays (Cambridge Scholars Publishing Classics Texts)

de Tocqueville, Alexis: Journey to America

• Alexis De Tocqueville: Journey to America

Wyatt, Thomas: Poems of Thomas Wyatt

• The Complete Poems (Penguin Classics)

Walton, Izaak: The Complete Angler

• The Complete Angler 1653

Walton, Izaak: The Lives of - John Donne - Sir Henry Wotton - Richard Hooker - George Herbert & Robert Sanderson

• The Lives of - John Donne - Sir Henry Wotton - Richard Hooker - George Herbert & Robert Sanderson

Woolf, Virginia: The Common Reader

• The Common Reader: First Series, Annotated Edition

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