Shakespeare and Company

Sylvia Beach, James Laughlin

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Nebraska University Press
01 October 1991

Biography; Publishing industry

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.

By: Sylvia Beach
Introduction by: James Laughlin
Imprint: Nebraska University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 133mm, Spine: 14mm
Weight: 295g
ISBN: 9780803260979
ISBN 10: 0803260970
Pages: 246
Publication Date: 01 October 1991
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for Shakespeare and Company

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, Valery, and other faithful international friends and customers. -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