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About This Novel
"Shakespeare and Bookstore" is a memoir by the founder, Miss Beech. The book not only tells the joys, sorrows, achievements, regrets and details of interactions with many well-known writers and artists in the bookstore business, but also records the cultural and social changes in the 1920s and 1930s. With candid and funny writing, Miss Beech slowly unfolds the bustling left bank scenery of Paris: the grand publication of Joyce's banned book "Ulysses"; the crazy performance of Ansel's "Ballet Mechanica"; Hemingway's heroic appearance of liberating Theater Street; following the bookstore sign to climb up to his apartment George Antheil, Fitzgerald who almost jumped downstairs when he was drunk, Gide who teased people with turtles... Guarding this castle made of books, Sylvia Beach, a simple book lover, has seen all kinds of writers, tasted the warmth and coldness of the world, and witnessed a literary legend connected with books.
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Good book, worth reading,
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Good book, learned a lot
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Community(0)
Official(4)Scraped 4d ago
Good book, worth reading,
Good book, worth reading carefully
Good book, learned a lot
Good! ! !
