Shakespeare and Company Hardcover Sylvia Beach famous Paris bookshop James Joyce

by Sylvia Beach

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First edition

Step into the Heart of Literary Paris: Stated First Edition of Sylvia Beach's "Shakespeare and Company" – Your Passport to the Lost Generation's Wildest Tales! Imagine holding in your hands the very book that unlocks the doors to 1920s Paris, where expatriate writers sipped absinthe, debated modernism, and sparked revolutions on the page. This isn't just any memoir; it's Sylvia Beach's Shakespeare and Company, a rollicking account of her legendary English-language bookstore that became the beating heart of the Lost Generation. 📚✨ Picture James Joyce pacing the floors, begging Beach to publish his banned masterpiece Ulysses – and her boldly saying yes, printing 28,000 copies over the years when censors everywhere else screamed no. Or Ernest Hemingway "liberating" the shop during WWII in a symbolic charge against the Nazis. 😂 Who knew bookselling could involve such high-stakes drama? This gem evokes the zeitgeist of an era through intimate glimpses of Joyce, Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ezra Pound, and more – all gathering in Beach's cozy haven on rue de l'Odéon, trading ideas that shaped 20th-century literature. At its core, Shakespeare and Company is a memoir highlighting top features like Beach's daring publication of Ulysses in 1922 (defying obscenity bans with her famous quip: "You can't censor human nature" – a comment that still rings true today! 😉), the vibrant expatriate scene, and the shop's dual role as a bookstore and lending library that fostered French inter

• Publisher: Harcourt, Brace
• Year: 1959
• Condition: Very Good

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