Shakespeare and Company

The Egoist was unable to print any more of the book, and after the journal closed in December 1919 HSW concentrated on volume publication. However, the prosecution of The Little Review for serializing Ulysses in...

Over the years, the old crowd had begun to disperse and the Saturday evening salons were frequented more by writers and less by artists. Although GS had published only a few volumes and had often...

Pomes Penyeach, a tiny volume covered in the pale green of Joyce's favorite apple, the Calville, was published by Shakespeare and Company, selling, as the title suggested, for a shilling or twelve francs.

Ulysses was published in Paris by Shakespeare and Company on JJ 's fortieth birthday. Joyce gave Harriet Shaw Weaver Copy No. 1 of the de luxe edition; he gave Copy No. 1000 to his wife Nora .

Bryher met Sylvia Beach and Adrienne Monnier , her future friends and collaborators, at Beach's Paris bookshop, Shakespeare and Company .

Bryher made a financial commitment to Shakespeare and Company as well: in 1937, for instance, she donated funds covering most of its annual rent, and provided Beach with an expenses fund thereafter. With Monnier

This was published by Sylvia Beach 's Shakespeare and Company at Paris, and has been several times reprinted.

SB opened the bookshop Shakespeare and Company at 8 rue Dupuytren in Paris with money raised by her mother .

SB handed James Joyce the first copy of Ulysses on his fortieth birthday; she placed the second copy in the window of Shakespeare and Company .

James Joyce asked SB to sign an official contract over the publication rights of Ulysses, a decade after the verbal agreement between them to have Shakespeare and Company publish it.

T. S. Eliot made a special appearance at SB 's Shakespeare and Company to read The Waste Land and Burnt Norton to Les Amis de Shakespeare and Company .

SB was forced to close Shakespeare and Company , her Paris bookshop, following threats of seizure by the Nazis .

SB published her memoirs about her life and about her bookshop in Shakespeare and Company.

An American expatriate in Paris, SB played a key role in the emergence of literary modernism. She wrote important translations of landmark works of modernist literature, edited a collection of critical reviews and a retrospective...

SB was hunting down a copy of Paul Fort 's Vers et prose, and was directed to Monnier's bookshop. She found the shop's owner surprisingly warm and friendly. Adrienne declared that she like[d] America...