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May Book Club
Join Stacey Goldring at the bookstore as we go the one of the most famous bookstores in the world, Shakespeare and Company by Sylvia Beach. Our book club will meet in the bookstore at 6:30 pm, refreshments will be served.
Reservations should be made on the Chapter Endnotes page. Click here.
Books should be purchased here. See below for book description. A book club bundle is also available, which can be found here.
Sylvia Beach was intimately acquainted with the expatriate and visiting writers of the Lost Generation, a label that she never accepted. Like moths of great promise, they were drawn to her well-lighted bookstore and warm hearth on the Left Bank. Shakespeare and Company evokes the zeitgeist of an era through its revealing glimpses of James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway, Scott Fitzgerald, Sherwood Anderson, Andre Gide, Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas, D. H. Lawrence, and others already famous or soon to be.
In his introduction to this new edition, James Laughlin recalls his friendship with Sylvia Beach. Like her bookstore, his publishing house, New Directions, is considered a cultural touchstone.
