BOOKS BOUGHT BY HELENE HANFF FROM 84 CHARING CROSS ROAD


A fellow HH fan, Diane Gross, has put together a list of the books and music scores that Helene ordered from the bookshop at 84 Charing Cross Road - ardent fans, take note and make your purchases!!! As Diane says, "Some don't name the authors or titles, I just wrote what I read at 3am, so you might want to double-check my entries!" Doug Wilson has made a few amendments to some entries, and provided some more information on others - and the full list follows: (Thanks to both Diane and Doug!!!)

Requested books:

  1. Austen, Jane - Pride & Prejudice
  2. Beloc, Hilaire - essays
  3. Beowulf (mentioned, but no interest in reading)
  4. Book Lover's Anthology
  5. Cassell's dictionary
  6. Cattulus - Loeb classic edition; (Latin text; verse trans. by Sir Richard Burton, prose trans. by Leonard Smithers--HH not a fan as the translators "cleaned up" the language)
  7. Chaucer - Canterbury Tales ("a modern English verison, not Old English or Anglo-Saxon")
  8. Chesterfield - essays
  9. de Coverely, Sir Roger - papers
  10. Delafield - Diary of a Provincial Lady
  11. De Tocqueville - Journey to America
  12. Donne, John - Complete Sermons (p.78 - FPD says the sermons an only be found in the 40-vol. complete works)
  13. "Elizabethan poets"
  14. Goldsmith - essays
  15. Grahame, Kenneth - Wind in the Willows (w/Sheppherd illus.)
  16. Greek New Testament
  17. Hazlitt - Selected Essays
  18. Horace - Loeb classic edition
  19. Hunt, Leigh - Essays
  20. Johnson on Shakespeare (Oxford pr. ed.)
  21. Jonson - love poems
  22. Lamb - Essays of Elia (MacDonald Illus. Classics); Tales from Shakespeare
  23. Landor, Walter Savage - Works & Life of (includes "Imaginary Conversations;" one is Aesop & Rhodope)
  24. Latin Bible
  25. Latin New Testament (Anglican Vulgate; dictionary to Vulgate)
  26. MacDonald Illustrated Classics
  27. Memoirs of (Louis the) Duke de Saint-Simon - trans. by Francis Arkwright
  28. Newman, John Henry - Ideas of a University
  29. Oxford Book of English Prose
  30. Oxford Book of English Verse
  31. Oxford Dictionary ("Shorter")
  32. Plato - Four Socratic dialogues (Oxford pr.)
  33. Plato - minor dialogues
  34. Pepys, Samuel - Diary
  35. Quiller-Couch - The Pilgrim's Way
  36. Sappho - Loeb classic edition
  37. Shaw, George Bernard - dramatic criticisms; music criticisms; correspondence with Ellen Terry; 30 vol. Standard ed. ("for a friend")
  38. Stevenson - Virginibus Puerisque (NOTE: Ruben Caban emailed me to let me know that the text of this book is on the web - a friend of his emailed him details of how to find it: ON-LINE Books Page - "click on the "Search our 6000+ listings" and enter the Author and Title and there it is". Many thanks to Ruben and his friend Paul for this info!)
  39. Tristram Shandy (MacDonald Illus. Classics)
  40. Walton - Compleat Angler, Lives
  41. Woolf, Virginia - Common Reader (2 vols)
  42. Wyatt - love poems

Requested vocal scores:

  1. Bach - St. Matthews Passion
  2. Handel - Messiah
  3. Coates, Eric - London Suite (NOTE BY DOUG: "a piece of music, composed in 1933. The "Knightsbridge March" section was used for years as the signature tune of a BBC radio program called "In Town Tonight". I guess Helene is talking about the march's trio section when she talks about London being "green and gracious". We used this music at this point in the play when The Oakville Players recently performed "84 Charing Cross Road" (with much acclaim, I might add!" NICE PLUG, DOUG!!! :-) He continues: "The Knightsbridge March can be found, among other places, on a Hyperion CD 'British Light Music Classics - volume 2'."



When I find a few spare hours for searching the bookshops on the web, I'll make a list of appropriate links for anyone to purchase copies of these.....!!