If you have seen the first picture and I do like Irish
literature, you must be waiting for more, right?
So, here’s another very interesting picture (and
comments as well).
On March 14th 1887, Sylvia Beach, owner of the
Paris-based bookstore Shakespeare and
Company Bookshop, was born in Baltimore. Beach moved to Paris at the age of
14, when her father, a Presbyterian minister, was sent to France.
She fell in love with the city. In 1919, she opened
her bookstore, Shakespeare and Company, which became a gathering place for
American writers in Paris in the 1920s, including F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway.
Beach was a strong supporter of writer James Joyce,
who lived in Paris from 1920 to 1940. The Irish writer had achieved fame with
his 1915 novel, A Portrait of the Artist
as a Young Man, and had started publishing his masterwork Ulysses in serial form in an American
magazine called the Little Review. However, the serialization was halted in
December 1920, after the U.S. Post Office brought a charge of obscenity against
Joyce's work. Beach published the book herself in July 1922. It wasn't until
1933 that a U.S. judge permitted Ulysses
to be distributed in the U.S.
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