Book of secrets

Loosely book related, but still fascinating, and the movie I am most excited to see this year.

Turning the pages

Browsing texts and the original pages as though the book is laid out in front of you is a fabulous feeling, not quite as grand as the actual book, but still lovely in almost every way.

Type in a book title, or just peruse random volumes.
Enjoy!

A wish list of enormous proportions

Why yes, I am insane. I am also a book collector, reader, and wishful writer...but first I am a collector.
Here is every book listed in the book and movie "84 Charing Cross Road".
I have attacked this list with fervor. Do not be surprised if my next entry is not by me, but by my husband, informing you that my 4th bookcase collapsed on me, yet I died with a smile on my face, surrounded by gilded pages.


This list is NOT made by me! Credit goes to Diane Gross.
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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