The Paris Bookseller - THORNDIKE PRESS LARGE PRINT BASIC

"The dramatic story of how a humble bookseller fought against incredible odds to bring one of the most important books of the 20th century to the world in this new novel from the author of The Girl in White Gloves. 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. 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. 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. When Joyce's controversial novel Ulysses is banned, Beach takes a massive risk and publishes it under the auspices of Shakespeare and Company. But the success and notoriety of publishing

ISBN:	9781432896867
Publisher:	Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Imprint:	Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Published date:	25 May 2022
DEWEY:	813.6
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	cm.
Weight:	544g
Height:	208mm
Width:	137mm
Spine width:	25mm

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