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, James Joyce, and Richard Wright. As librarian, publicist, publisher, and translator, Beach carved out a unique space for herself in English and...

Sylvia Beachs amerikanische Buchhandlung in Paris war fr ein Vierteljahrhundert literarischer Mittelpunkt der Stadt. Gertrude Stein gehrte ebenso zu ihren Besucherinnen wie Ezra Pound, Ernest Hemingway und James Joyce. In ihren Erinnerungen entfaltet die inspirierte und inspirierende Buchhndlerin eine anschauliche Kulturgeschichte zwischen den beiden Weltkriegen.