Her most cherished relationships are put to the test as Paris is plunged deeper into the Depression and many expatriate friends return to America. The future of her beloved store itself is threatened when Ulysses’ success brings other publishers to woo Joyce away. When Joyce’s controversial novel Ulysses is banned, Beach takes a massive risk and publishes it under the auspices of Shakespeare and Company.īut the success and notoriety of publishing the most infamous and influential book of the century comes with steep costs. It’s where some of the most important literary friendships of the twentieth century are forged–none more so than the one between Irish writer James Joyce and Sylvia herself. Shakespeare and Company is more than a bookstore and lending library: Many of the prominent writers of the Lost Generation, like Ernest Hemingway, consider it a second home. When bookish young American Sylvia Beach opens Shakespeare and Company on a quiet street in Paris in 1919, she has no idea that she and her new bookstore will change the course of literature itself.
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