Founder of the Left Bank bookstore Shakespeare and Company and the first publisher of James Joyce's Ulysses, Sylvia Beach had a legendary facility for nurturing literary talent. In this first collection of her letters, we witness Beach's day-to-day dealings as bookseller and publisher to expatriate[...]
The first collection of selected correspondence of the noted bookseller and publisher includes letters to Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, William Carlos Williams, Marianne Moore, and Gertrude Stein.[...]
Noel Riley Fitch has written a perfect book, full to the brim with literary history, correct and whole-hearted both in statement and in implication. She makes me feel and remember a good many things that happened before and after my time. I'm glad to have lived long enough to read it. --Glenway Wesc[...]
'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[...]
Sylvia Beachs klassiska skildring av sin bokhandel i Paris utkommer nu i nyöversättning av Erik Andersson. Prästdottern Sylvia kom från USA till Frankrikes huvudstad när Paris var centrum för all världens konst och litteratur, inklusive den engelska och amerikanska modernismen på flykt undan[...]