The Letters of Sylvia Beach

Informationen zum Autor Sylvia Beach. Edited by Keri Walsh. Foreword by Noël Riley Fitch Klappentext Sylvia Beach (1887-1962) has been called the patron saint of independent bookstores. Founder of the Left Bank's Shakespeare & Company in 1919 and first publisher of James Joyce's Ulysses (1922)! her facility for nurturing talent and promoting the avant-garde are legendary. In this first collection of her letters! we witness Beach's day-to-day dealings as bookseller and publisher to expatriate Paris. Beach's friends and clients included 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! she carved out a unique place at the crossroads of English and French letters. This volume reveals Beach's wit and resourcefulness! sharing her negotiations with Marianne Moore to place Joyce's work in The Dial; her battle to curb the piracy of Ulysses in the United States; her struggle to keep Shakespeare & Company afloat during the Depression; and her long love affair with the French bookstore owner Adrienne Monnier. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations Preface by Noel Riley Fitch Acknowledgments Introduction References Chronology THE LETTERS OF SYLVIA BEACH I. Friendship and Travel II. World War I III. Shakespeare and Company: Expatriates IV. Shakespeare and Company: 1930s V. Postwar VI. Old Friends and True VII. Legacies Appendix 1. Morrill Cody's Article on Shakespeare and Company for Publishers Weekly (April 12, 1924) Appendix 2. Beach's Letter of Protest against the Pirating of Ulysses (February 2, 1927) Appendix 3. Beach's Unsent Letter to James Joyce (April 12, 1927) Appendix 4. Beach's Speech for the Institut Radiophonique d'Extension Universitaire (May 24, 1927) Glossary of Correspondents Index

Product details

• Authors: Sylvia Beach, Beach Sylvia, Keri Walsh
• Assisted by: Keri Walsh (Editor), Walsh Keri (Editor), Noël Riley Fitch (Foreword)
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.06.2010
• EAN: 9780231145367
• ISBN: 978-0-231-14536-7
• No. of pages: 376
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 242 mm x 28 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; Diaries, letters & journals, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Diaries & Journals, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Media & Communications, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Letters, Diaries, letters and journals, Publishing industry & book trade, Publishing and book trade, Letters; LGBTQ