Shakespeare and Company
by:
Sylvia Beach (author)
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780374904852 (0374904855)
Publish date: January 1st 1982
Publisher: Octagon Books
Pages no: 230
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
Writing,
History,
Literature,
Cultural,
Books About Books,
20th Century,
Biography Memoir,
France
Ebook - read via Open Library here.Sylvia Beach and her bookstore Shakespeare and Company are legendary now - but were also quickly popular in her time, as the bookshop became a meeting place for visitors to stop in and perhaps use its address to forward their mail. It was as much a club and a write...
The third book read in my project to learn more about literary expatriates in 1920s and 1930s Paris, Sylvia Beach's memoir was in many ways the most enjoyable reading experience to date. Beach was an American woman who operated an English language lending library and bookstore called Shakespeare & C...
A good and easy read espcially if you like the Paris/Ex-Pat/Writing of the 1920′s
Paris. The 1920's, right after the first war. The memoirs of one of the members of what is now known as the "Lost Generation". American writers, poets, painters, musicians that found themselves in Paris at that time. They all at one point entered Sylvia Beach's bookshop "Shakespeare & Company". Hemi...
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