James Joyce's letters to Sylvia Beach
Paris was our Mistress
The Left Bank
The Letters of Aubrey Beardsley
The Writing of Fiction
Shakespeare and Company
The Healing Imagination of Olive Schreiner

Sylvia Beach

Sylvia Beach made literary history in 1922 when she published the first edition of James Joyce's Ulysses under the imprint of her Paris bookshop, Shakespeare and Company. But it was not only Joyce who visited her bookshop on the Left Bank, but also most of the writers who were to make the 1920's legendary when they converged on Paris to live and work. All were customers and callers at Shakespeare and Company, No. 12 Rue de l'Odéon, which became the buzzing social centre for one of this century's most significant literary movements. Sylvia Beach brings her friends and customers to life in vivid portraits. Here are Ernest Hemingway, Ezra Pound, George Antheil, Gertrude Stein, Sherwood Anderson, Scott Fitzgerald as well as some of the leading French writers who were also her patrons: Paul Valéry, André Gide and Jules Romains among many others. The author of this enchanting book was uniquely placed to witness and record an important chapter in a literary era.

ISBN 1-870495-05-5  £16.95