The Letters of Sylvia Beach

by Sylvia Beach

Book Overview

Founder of the Left Bank bookstore Shakespeare and Company and the first publisher of James Joyce's Ulysses, Sylvia Beach had a legendary facility for nurturing literary talent. In this first collection of her letters, we witness Beach's day-to-day dealings as bookseller and publisher to expatriate Paris. Friends and clients include Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, H. D., Ezra Pound, Janet Flanner, William Carlos Williams, F. Scott Fitzgerald,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231145373
• ISBN13: 9780231145374
• Release Date: February 2012
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher