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    The Believer

    Jun 01, 2022 5 minutes
    KERI WALSH

    When James Joyce and his family turned up in Paris in the summer of 1920, the writer had with him the sprawling manuscript-in-progress that would, by all accounts, become a landmark of modern literature. At a party where Ezra Pound was also a guest, Joyce met Sylvia Beach, an American in her early 30s and the proprietor of an English-language bookstore and lending library called Shakespeare and Company, located in Paris’s Latin Quarter. Beach had been looking to bring herself and her small business to the attention of the literary world, and in the figure of Joyce and his massive work called Ulysses, she immediately recognized the opportunity she had been waiting for—to do something extraordinary.

    Beach was born in 1887 and grew up in a middle-class

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