TRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY

The Shakespeare and Company Project uses records from Sylvia Beach's famous bookshop and lending library to reveal the reading practices of the century's most influential writers, along with hundreds of other artists, intellectuals, and students who lived in Paris between the two world wars... Learn about the members of the Shakespeare and Company lending library. Discover where they lived. Browse and search the books they borrowed-and read the books themselves... In 1919, an American woman named Sylvia Beach (1887 - 1962) opened an English-language bookshop and lending library on the Left Bank in Paris. She called it Shakespeare and Company, and it quickly became the center of expatriate life in the city. In 1922, she published James Joyce's Ulysses under the Shakespeare and Company imprint, making the bookshop and lending library famous around the world. Over the next two decades, she sold and loaned books-everything from the avant-garde poetry to birth control manuals to the..