Shakespeare and Company / by Sylvia Beach.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Beach, Sylvia.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Beach, Sylvia.

Shakespeare and Company--History.

Shakespeare and Company.

Booksellers and bookselling--France--Paris--History--20th century.

Booksellers and bookselling.

Authors and publishers--France--Paris--History--20th century.

Authors and publishers.

Literature publishing--France--Paris--History--20th century.

Literature publishing.

History.

France--Paris.

Americans--France--Paris--History--20th century.

Americans.

Beach, Sylvia--Homes and haunts--France--Paris.

Paris (France)--Intellectual life--20th century.

Paris (France).

France.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xxii, 230 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Edition:

First Bison book, New edition / introduction by James Laughlin.

Other Title:

Shakespeare & Company.

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [1991]

Summary:

"" 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.

Notes:

Cover title: Shakespeare & Company.

"A Bison book."

Originally published: New York : Harcourt, Brace, c1959.

Includes index.

ISBN:

0803260970 :

OCLC:

23582773