The post-WWI years in Europe were a hugely important time for English literature. She called her bookshop Shakespeare and Company. It would prove to be a momentous decision. Sylvia soon began having ideas about setting up a bookshop of her own. For the next 36 years, the two would be friends and lovers, and that day marked the beginning of an extraordinary story in the history of literature. In 1918, 31-year-old American, Sylvia Beach, walked into a bookshop on the rue de l’Odéon in Paris and met its owner, Adrienne Monnier. A small bookshop on rue de l’Odéon that became the meeting-place, focal point and publishing house for some of the greatest writers of the 20 th century. Shakespeare and Company was nothing short of a phenomenon. In memory of James Joyce – who was born on this day 140 years ago – we take a look at Shakespeare and Company: the little bookshop that changed the course of Joyce’s life. National Emerging Writer Programme Overview.
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