84 Charing Cross Road

Author: Helene Hanff

ISBN: 0140143505 (English); 9571335894 (Traditional Chinese)

This charming classic, first published in1970, brings together twenty years of correspondence between Helene Hanff, a freelance writer living in New York City, and a used-book dealer in London. Through the years, though never meeting and separated both geographically and culturally, they share a winsome, sentimental friendship based on their common love for books. Their relationship, captured so acutely in these letters, is one that will grab your heart and not let go.(From the Publisher)

In Light of India

Author: Octavio Paz

ISBN: 0151003017 (English); 9578278551 (Traditional Chinese)

Octavio Paz might seem an unlikely commentator on Indian politics and culture. In Light of India shows that he is knowledgeable and passionate about both.... His manner is relaxed--a ruse that draws the reader, unsuspecting, into concentrated thought on ideas that are subtle and demanding. Memorably observed with all the eloquence and insight you would suppose, this is recognizably the work of a great poet. Yet these skills are married to political sophistication and sustained analytic power--a rare enough combination. (The Economist)

In Search of Tusitala: Travels in the Pacific After Robert Louis Stevenson

Author: Gavin Bell

ASIN: 0330329324 (English, Out of Print); ISBN: 9578278101 (Traditional Chinese)

Gavin Bell, for many years an admirer of Stevenson and his work, retraces Stevenson's passage through the more remote communities of French Polynesia, Hawaii, Kiribati and Samoa. On his tour through Polynesia and Micronesia he finds haunting echoes of a fading culture which enchanted Stevenson and in Hawaii finds a man who possesses one of the finest private Stevenson collections. (From the Publisher)

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