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 | | | Photograph: Sylvia Beach with James Joyce in front of her Paris bookshop-library, "Shakespeare and Company." |
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Sylvia Beach (1887 - 1962)
Category: American Literature Born: March 14, 1887
Baltimore, Maryland, United States Died: October 4, 1962
Paris, France
Related authors:
Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein, James Joyce, Janet Flanner, Morley Callaghan, Sherwood Anderson
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| 2/2/1922 |
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Joyce's Birthday Books
On this day in 1922, James Joyce's fortieth birthday, Ulysses was first published -- although only two copies of the book actually arrived by train to anxious publisher Sylvia Beach. Although Finnegans Wake was not ready for publication on Joyce's fifty-seventh birthday, as he had hoped, a bound copy was delivered to him. Both birthday books relieved Joyce's superstitious fears, and occasioned a party. |
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| 6/27/1928 |
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Joyce, Fitzgerald, Jumping
On this day in 1928 Sylvia Beach hosted a dinner party in order that F. Scott Fitzgerald, who "worshipped James Joyce, but was afraid to approach him," might do so. Out of nervousness or champagne, Fitzgerald greeted his hero by dropping down on one knee, kissing his hand, and declaring, "How does it feel to be a great genius, Sir? I am so excited at seeing you, Sir, that I could weep." |
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| 11/17/1919 |
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Joyce, Hemingway, Shakespeare & Co.
On this day in 1919 American expatriate Sylvia Beach opened her bookshop-library, "Shakespeare and Company," in the Left Bank section of Paris. It was an intellectual and social center for the international literary community for decades; it was closed when a Nazi officer wanted Beach's last copy of Finnegans Wake, and "liberated" after the war by Hemingway. |
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Hemingway at Shakespeare & Company
Literary Traveler is a website featuring original stories about important locales in literary history. This article discusses the relationship between Sylvia Beach, Shakespeare & Company and the great writers of the era, including Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, and Gertrude Stein. |  | Official Website
Get directions, learn about the history of the store, find information about upcoming literary events, and peruse the shop's list of "essential reads", which include:
A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
Ulysses by James Joyce
Sartori in Paris by Jack Kerouac
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Howl by Allan Ginsberg
The Ambassadors by Henry James
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint Exupery
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton | | Shakespeare and Company Virtual Tour
Find 360 degree panoramic images which you may zoom and spin to explore the famous bookshop. Includes images of Rue de la Būcherie, the antiquarian shop, the tea room, smoky reading room, back room nook, and the writer's room and desk.
"There is an inherent paradox in creating a website and virtual visual tour for a bookshop dedicated to the written word. Yet it must be acknowledged that even the most florid prose cannot begin to describe the visual cacophony of the shop and Tumbleweed Hotel, places whose book-lined walls assault the visual sense. Fortunately, there are new technologies that allow a new type of illustration which will be used to attempt to compensate for the failings of the written word...." | | Sylvia Beach Image Gallery
Collection of images from the Princeton University Library. | |
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