Shakespeare and Company - Softcover

Beach, Sylvia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0803260563 ISBN 13: 9780803260566

Publisher: Univ of Nebraska Pr, 1980

Synopsis

Beach, Sylvia, Shakespeare and Company

About this title

From the Back Cover:

This book 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.

Review:

"In 1919 Sylvia Beach "opened an American bookshop in Paris called Shakespeare and Company. During the following two decades it became practically a clearing house for writers of this vital post-1918 period. When no publisher would touch her friend James Joyce's Ulysses, Miss Beach published it, in 1922, under her shop imprint. . . . Headquarters for the expatriate American writers, the shop was also a favorite stopping-off place for Gide, Valéry, and other faithful international friends and customers."—San Francisco Chronicle (San Francisco Chronicle)

"Miss Beach's book is intimate, not scholarly, and thus full of interesting information. Her reminiscences are literally an index of everybody in the twenties, and she knew them all."—Janet Flanner, New Yorker (Janet Flanner New Yorker)

About this edition

• Publisher: Univ of Nebraska Pr
• Publication date: 1980
• ISBN 10: 0803260563
• ISBN 13: 9780803260566
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 199