![]() ![]() ![]() Soon, Beach moved to a more central location on the rue de l’Odéon, in the shadow of the Odéon theatre. In celebration of this centennial anniversary, editor of The Letters of Sylvia Beach, Keri Walsh is sharing this brief history of the last days of Shakespeare and Company and Beach’s life after the store’s closing.Ī century ago this November, on a quiet Paris street called rue Dupuytren, Sylvia Beach opened her English-language bookstore Shakespeare and Company. Novemmarks the 100th anniversary of Sylvia Beach’s original Shakespeare and Company, a legendary bookstore that drew in friends and clients such as Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, and Ezra Pound. It documents what Beach once called ‘my missionary endeavor’ and also what she called, correctly, her ‘interesting life.’ ” ~ Dwight Garner, New York Times ![]() “This lovely book, scholarly and well annotated, is a pleasure to hold. ![]()
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