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The Shakespeare and Company will make you feel like you've died and gone to book heaven. This enchanting bookshop, owned by poet, painter and artist George Whitman, is a Paris institution and has been the hub for the city's literati, artists and creative class. Since it first opened in 1951, this independent shop has been described by Henry Miller as a “wonderland of books” is located on the Left Bank in the Latin Quarter and has maintained an impressive selection of quality books as well as its quixotic idealism.
Take note that this bookshop should not be confused with the place originally opened by Sylvia Beach, which was open from 1919 to 1941 and was located at 12 rue de l'Odéon. Beach's “Shakespeare and Company” was the heart of the Anglo/American literary culture in Paris, wherein clients could buy or borrow banned books and was the hub for the members of the Lost Generation which included the likes of: Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, Eyra Pound, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein, George Antheil, Man Ray and James Joyce.
Though Sylvia Beach's shop closed down in 1941 due to cataclysmic events that took place during World War II, shop by the same name owned by George Whitman follows the same ideals and has attracted (and continues to do so) the same kind of clientele which include innovators in writing and the arts. Famed patrons include the members of the Beat generation which include: Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, William Burroughs, as well as the likes of Henry Miller and Richard Wright.
For further reading, check out:
"Hemingway at Shakespeare & Company," by John Affleck, at Literary Traveler (http://www.literarytraveler.com/literary_articles/hemingway_paris_shakespeare_company.aspx)
"The Beats go on", by Alix Sharkey, March 3, 2002, at The Observer (http://www.harbour.sfu.ca/~hayward/paris/shakespeare-observor.html)
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