The book "No.84 Charing Cross Road" is known as "the Bible for book lovers". I read the version translated by Mr. Chen Jianming. He started his own translation before the book was authorized, which shows Mr. Wang's love for books. In addition, Mr. Chen Jianming works in the Ancient Books Department of Taiwan Province Eslite Bookstore. He translated this book because 1987' s No.84 Charing Cross Road was actually translated into the title of Lost Blood. This is why Mr. Wang began to translate this book, hoping to show you the beauty of this book. Writing here, I think Rita suggested in the lecture on May 23rd that we should read less bestsellers and more Chinese and foreign classics. This makes sense. When I read this book at night, I am often amused and moved by Miss Hailian's humor. This book is not very long. It took me seven tomato clocks to finish reading? , a total of about 3 hours.
No.84 Charing Cross Road mainly tells the story of a miss helene hanff who lives in new york. Because she couldn't buy the book she wanted to read, she learned that Marx and Cohen Bookstore in London had out-of-print books through the advertisement of Saturday Literary Review, and she communicated with the bookstore manager for about 20 years. In the 1950s, Britain was in short supply. Every family only gives two ounces of meat every week, and everyone only gives one egg every month! The kind Miss Hailian sent ham, eggs, sausages, canned goods, stockings and so on to this small bookstore in London. So Frank, the manager of the bookstore, and the clerks regarded her as a good friend, tried their best to find the orphan book she wanted, gave her a tablecloth embroidered by the old lady on her birthday, and promised her to come to London to provide her with indefinite accommodation. How they wish to meet this kind lady they have never met. Miss Hailian even dreamed of setting foot on the land of England, but her trip to England failed because of the rising travel expenses and her tooth problems after the Queen ascended the throne. Shrimp and the professor in Two Love Letters finally made a bet, and they met successfully. Shrimp said, "If Hailian finally gambles and comes to England, will her ending be different?" Yes, take a gamble. Maybe Hailian can meet Frank. Many people say that Hailian has spiritual love for Frank, but nothing can change after meeting him. Frank already has a wife and daughter. I think, maybe not meeting is also a good result. In this way, the impression of two people, what they believe in each other, will be much more interesting.
1987 The movie version of No.84 Charing Cross Road was also included in my movie list. The film is directed by British director David Hugh Jones, written by Hugh Whitemore, played by anne Bancroft as Helen Hanfu, and played by Anthony Hopkins as Frank Del. It is said that this film won a good prize and is worth seeing.
The following are some interesting clips, which are enough for us to appreciate Miss helene hanff's bookish, humorous, kind and frank!
①1949165438+1October18 (Helen Hanff)
Please tell the lords of the Anglican Church that they destroyed the most beautiful words in history for no reason. Who gave the bad idea to make the popular Latin Bible look like this? They will burn him alive. Remember what I said.
②1March 25th, 950 (helene hanff)
Frank del! What are you doing? I got nothing! You are not fooling around, are you?
You made me sit at home and write a lot of notes on books in the library. If one day they find out, they will revoke my library card.
(3)1April 7, 950 (Cecily Farr)
Everyone is very grateful for the package you sent. My two little guys are so happy, because I can bake them a cake with raisins and eggs you gave me!
④1951April 16 (helene hanff)
I like old books with titles on the title page and notes on the margins; I love the feeling that my heart-to-heart predecessors are reading, and sometimes they feel chest tightness and sometimes they are exposed to it.
⑤ 195 1 year 65438+February 7th (Frank Del)
We will send you a small Christmas present. This is an embroidery, and we will mark "Gift included" on the package, in the hope that you can avoid being subject to customs duties in class. Everyone hopes you can accept this small gift, and everyone wishes you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
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Writing here, I want to say a digression. In this book, 1958, Mr. Dale's wife fell ill and stayed in the hospital for several months. However, I haven't paid any money at all in the hospital these months. God, the American medical system has been so perfect since 1958, and I have to marvel and admire it!
At the end of this book, there is an appendix written by Mr. Tang Nuo: With this street, it is bigger than the whole world. This appendix he wrote is really great! I have never understood why this book is called "Bible for book lovers", but not all other books can win this title. After reading this appendix, I feel like a village with a bright future. If reading a book is not enough, you must also integrate your own thinking with other people's views, so as to understand the knowledge in the book more deeply. This is a small gain from reading this book.
"From a morphological point of view, the world in front of us is often just a thin layer of the present, while the image of the world revealed by Charing Cross Street through books is superimposed by endless time levels, including the endless past that we lost because of amnesia, and even the endless future that we are unable to look forward to."
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