{"product_id":"2940170703234","title":"84, Charing Cross Road","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhen Helene Hanff makes an innocent inquiry about the possibility of purchasing hard-to-find books through Marks and Co., Booksellers, she begins a twenty-year love affair with Frank Doel, the proper English bookseller who answers her letter and sends along her first order in the fall of 1949. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThey are two very unlikely correspondents: she a cranky Jewish New Yorker who writes TV scripts and lives in a messy apartment on East 95th Street; he a determinedly courteous middle-class Englishman who sends her beautifully bound and often obscure antiquarian books from the shop he manages on Charing Cross Road in London. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe letters, written between 1949 and 1969, capture the period and pay tribute to the special kind of reader who treasures a well-worn classic.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Recorded Books, LLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47105115816176,"sku":"2940170703234","price":8.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940170703234_p0.jpg?v=1763715233","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940170703234","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}