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Shakespeare and Company (1919–1941)

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wrote that Shakespeare and Company was a "meeting place, clubhouse, post office, money exchange, and reading room for the famous and soon-to-be famous of the avant garde". Its books were considered high quality and reflected Beach's own taste. The store and its literary denizens are mentioned in
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in 1922. It, too, was banned in the United States and Britain. Later editions were also published under the Shakespeare and Company imprint. She also encouraged the publication, in 1923, and sold copies of Hemingway's first book,
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At her bookstore, historic figures made rare appearances, readings of their work: Paul Valery, Andre Gide, and T.S. Eliot; Hemingway even broke his rule of not reading in public if
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from New Jersey, established Shakespeare and Company on 19 November 1919, at 8 rue Dupuytren. Feminist novelist Annie Winifred Ellerman, who wrote under the pseudonym
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Shakespeare and Company was established by Beach, an American expatriate, in November 1919, at 8 rue Dupuytren, before moving to larger premises at 12
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in 1921. During the 1920s, Beach's shop and lending library was a gathering place for many then-aspiring and renowned writers and poets such as
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in World War II. It has been suggested that it may have been ordered to shut because Beach denied a German officer the last copy of Joyce's
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The store functioned as a lending library as well as a bookstore. In 1921, Beach moved it to a larger location at 12
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would read with him, and Spender agreed, so Hemingway appeared for a rare reading in public with Stephen Spender.
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The Time of Their Lives: The Golden Age of Great American Publishers, Their Editors and Authors
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Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation: A History of Literary Paris in the Twenties and Thirties
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was an influential English-language bookstore in Paris founded by
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Shakespeare and Company was forced to close in 1941 during the
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Buildings and structures in the 6th arrondissement of Paris
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Shakespeare and Company closed in December 1941 during the
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Americans in Paris: Life and Death Under Nazi Occupation
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This article is about the defunct bookstore founded by
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Index

Sylvia Beach
Shakespeare and Company (bookstore)
Sylvia Beach
James Joyce
Ulysses
rue de l'Odéon
6th arrondissement
Ezra Pound
Ernest Hemingway
Djuna Barnes
James Joyce
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Gertrude Stein
Ford Madox Ford
German occupation of Paris
Stratford-on-Odéon

Rue de l'Odéon

Rue de l'Odéon
Paris VI
Sylvia Beach
Ulysses
James Joyce
Sylvia Beach
expatriate
Bryher
Sir John Ellerman
rue de l'Odéon
modernism

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