![]() ![]() “This is not pepys’ diary, this is some busybody’s miserable collection of EXCERPTS from pepys’ diary may he rot. ![]() “WHAT KIND OF A PEPYS’ DIARY DO YOU CALL THIS?” she wrote after receiving a shipment from the bookshop in 1951. Hanff’s letters bore little resemblance to the usual business correspondence. A voracious and discriminating reader, Hanff filled her letters with concise, intelligent discussions of English literature and the joys of book-collecting.” In 1990, Solomon described the still-popular book as “a collection of letters between a struggling young writer in post-World War II New York City and the staff of a small used-book store in London chronicles the changes England underwent as rationing and austerity gave way to prosperity. The play was produced on Broadway in 1982 starring Ellen Burstyn and Joseph Maher. ![]() The book was also adapted for the London stage by James Roose-Evans. ![]() The book was wildly popular in England and was adapted as a British television drama by Hugh Whitemore, who later wrote the screenplay for the motion picture. The ideal book to tuck away for a rainy afternoon.” Times reviewer Charles Solomon said the subsequent television show and 1986 film with Anne Bancroft as Hanff and Anthony Hopkins as Doel never “diminished the charm of Helene Hanff’s book. ![]()
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