Les Amis de Shakespeare and Company

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Leisure and Society Sylvia Beach
At the first literary night of Les Amis de Shakespeare and Company , supporters of SB 's bookshop, André Gide and Paul Valéry both read works by Valéry.
Fitch, Noel Riley. Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation: A History of Literary Paris in the Twenties and Thirties. W. W. Norton.
358, 361
Leisure and Society Sylvia Beach
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 .
Fitch, Noel Riley. Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation: A History of Literary Paris in the Twenties and Thirties. W. W. Norton.
364-5
Leisure and Society Sylvia Beach
Ernest Hemingway and Stephen Spender gave the last readings held at SB 's Les Amis de Shakespeare and Company .
Fitch, Noel Riley. Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation: A History of Literary Paris in the Twenties and Thirties. W. W. Norton.
370
Wealth and Poverty Sylvia Beach
Les Amis de Shakespeare and Company was dreamed up by Gide and Valéry in order to save Shakespeare and Company from imminent bankruptcy. It was a group of members who would contribute 300 francs (45...
Wealth and Poverty Sylvia Beach
SB struggled for most of her life to be financially independent. At an early date she wrote: I must get at something profitable. My uselessness utterly depresses me.
Fitch, Noel Riley. Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation: A History of Literary Paris in the Twenties and Thirties. W. W. Norton.
32
Her career as a bookshop owner...

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