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Shakespeare and Company (Paperback)
$18.00 - Save $1.07 (5%) - RRP $19.07 Free delivery worldwide (to United States and
all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for Shakespeare and Company'In 1919 Sylvia Beach opened an American bookshop in Paris called Shakespeare and Company. She was intimately acquainted with the expatriate and visiting writers of the Lost Generation, a label that she never accepted. This book evokes the zeitgeist of an era through its revealing glimpses of James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway, and Scott Fitzgerald.
Full description- Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
- Published: 01 October 1991
- Format: Paperback 246 pages
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- Categories: Writing & Editing Guides | Literary Studies: General | Business & Management | Publishing Industry
- ISBN 13: 9780803260979 ISBN 10: 0803260970
- Sales rank: 216,521
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Full description 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".-San Francisco Chronicle. "[Miss Beach's] reminiscences are literally an index of everybody in the twenties, and she knew them all".-Janet Flanner, New Yorker. Introduction by James Laughlin.

