![]() ![]() Her mission was to create both a book store and a haven where book lovers could gather to read. Her devotion to modern writers silently shaped the literary landscape of Paris and changed the face of modern literature. ![]() She was generous, good-humored, and fearlessly independent. Beach, who spent her life promoting of avant-garde literature, is one of the most fascinating female figures of the last century. Left Bank Bookseller tells the story of Sylvia Beach, an audacious woman known for running the first English-language bookstore in Paris. The publication by Beach's bookshop of Joyce’s revolutionary novel in 1922 caused a literary sensation and won for itself an international name and fame as the publisher of Ulysses. Ignoring claims that James Joyce’s Ulysses was obscene, Sylvia Beach, a courageous young woman from America offers to publish Ulysses in France. ![]() Left Bank Bookseller captures the avant-garde spirit of Paris in the 1920s. ![]()
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