230 pages
English language
Published Aug. 26, 1991 by University of Nebraska Press.
Shakespeare and Company
by Sylvia Beach
5 stars
(1 review)
Sylvia Beach was intimately acquainted with the expatriate and visiting writers of the Lost Generation, a label that she never accepted. Like moths of great promise, they were drawn to her well-lighted bookstore and warm hearth on the Left Bank. Shakespeare and Company evokes the zeitgeist of an era through its revealing glimpses of James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway, Scott Fitzgerald, Sherwood Anderson, Andre Gide, Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas, D. H. Lawrence, and others already famous or soon to be. In his introduction to this new edition, James Laughlin recalls his friendship with Sylvia Beach. Like her bookstore, his publishing house, New Directions, is considered a cultural touchstone.
Subjects
- Beach, Sylvia -- Homes and haunts -- France -- Paris
- Shakespeare and Company (Paris, France) -- History
- Booksellers and bookselling -- France -- Paris -- History -- 20th century
- Authors and publishers -- France -- Paris -- History -- 20th century
- Literature publishing -- France -- Paris -- History -- 20th century
- Americans -- France -- Paris -- History -- 20th century
- Paris (France) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century