Shakespeare once said, "Books are summaries of human knowledge." Books are the nourishment of the world. "As a carrier of cultural dissemination, bookstores carry the broad and profound civilization of mankind from ancient times to the present, and also carry the simple and deep feelings of human beings for knowledge."
In the small spiritual garden of the bookstore, colorful ideas and cultures converge and collide, and many wonderful and wonderful stories have occurred here.
Return to 84 Charing Cross Street
The author, Helene Humph, was born in Philadelphia in 1916 and spent most of her life in New York as a playwright. However, her 1970 memoir, 84 Charing Cross Street, rose to fame, and in 1971 Helen finally came to London for forty days in England. This book is the diary of this literary journey.
She wrote in "Return to 84 Charing Cross Street":
84 Charing Cross Didn't Make Me Rich, It Just Got Me Hundreds of Letters and Phone Calls, Which Gave Me a Good Review and Restored My Confidence and Self-Esteem, Which I Had Lost Long Ago.
I've been looking forward to visiting London all my life, and I got off at 84 Charing Cross Street and went to the former Max & Cohen Bookstore. I have a man in my heart, I have been with him for so many years, and now, I have come here, but he is no longer there...
In the diary, she reminisced about her deceased confidants, talked about British classical literature and history, and joked about beautiful London objects.
After Helen returned to the United States, she published her diary together with the first part, which was sought after by countless book lovers, and "84 Charing Cross Street" has since become a holy place for book lovers, becoming a code for the understanding of the heart among book lovers.
The Global Times commented: "Whether it is the discussion of books in ordinary life, or the inexplicable emotions contained in books, they give people a strong warmth and trust." Helene's persistence, humor, thoughtfulness, and frankness jump between the lines, making reading a pleasant and soft experience. ”
"Gentle Madness"
"The Madness of Elegance" is the representative work of Basbain, the authoritative and hall-level master of Western calligraphy, and also the immortal classic of Western calligraphy in the 20th century, which is not only magnificent in content, spanning ancient and modern times, but also has a huge length and a magnificent pattern.
The book tells the story of more than 100 books in the past 2500 years, the persistent pursuit of books, the most elegant and noble book in the world, the thrilling auction of rare books, the breathtaking anecdotes, and the timeless love affairs of books... The book is full of all kinds of strange, strange, but attractive book crazy people, and one race has been played by one. Passion and vicissitudes walk together, elegance and madness dance together, only because of human eternal love for books.
It is the only Western book to be selected for the final list of the National Book Awards, praised by the Wall Street Journal as "the most influential book classic of the 20th century", and appeared on the New York Times' annual good book, which has been a bestseller for 20 years.
This love letter to book lovers, as the New York Times book review said: "For anyone who has a serious interest in books, or is curious about the crazy nature of books, 'The Madness of Grace' is a must-read book!" ”
Written by the British 19th-century writer J. Rogers Reese, "Bookworm Fun" is a small book of essayists, translators, and foreign literary scholars Dong Qiao's great love, "miscellaneous records of buying old books, and occasionally interspersed with idle pens such as literati palms, which are very humane." ”
J. Rogers Rees is a book lover and is familiar with Western books and literati allusions. In this masterpiece of book hunting and collecting, book love and reading, he uses humane brush and ink to depict for us the "Heavenly Library" in the minds of bibliophiles, as well as the stories of the collection that make people laugh or cry: Byron, Saussé, Shelley, Rousseau, Lamb... This is an exciting 19th-century heroic history of book lovers and book collectors.
The bookstore is noisy, where all kinds of ideas converge and collide; the bookstore is quiet, filtering out the impetuousness of the world and making the soul peaceful. In contemporary times, the bookstore industry is no longer prosperous, but for book lovers, bookstores are still the warmest ideal place.
"Meet a Bookstore" is edited by Wang Yefei, who served as deputy director of the Propaganda Department of the Beijing Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China, director of the Municipal Press and Publication Bureau, and director of the Municipal Copyright Bureau.
This is a collection of stories between me and the bookstore, which brings together the stories of 88 people and the bookstore, there are unforgettable memories of reading villain books in the bookstore in childhood, there are stories of starting a bookstore because of the love of reading, there are acquaintances with the taciturn bookstore owners, and there are also the efforts and innovations made by the bookstore industry to seek development... From these stories, we can see the fate of people and bookstores, feel the warm power brought by bookstores, understand the contemporary bookstore landscape, and glimpse the changes of the times.
Source: Official account of Sisyphus Bookstore
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