#Shakespeare and company

[peacefulandcozy]

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[learnelle]

On Sunday I got a copy of the Silent Patient from Shakespeare & Co. Despite it being incredibly touristic I actually really love coming here! People rarely spend a lot of time upstairs, so it’s always so nice to use the reading spaces to go through a quick poetry book or to do some journaling :-)

#I read through a collection of french love poems and learned the word ‘le radada’ 🤠 #Paris #studyblr #light academia #cottagecore #studyspo #dark academia #bookblr #romantic academia #shakespeare and company #upthebaguette #books & libraries #books & reading

[a-study-in-dante]

December 12th, 2023 | Was in Paris yesterday for a monthly seminar at the BnF. How nice to arrive to a blue sky and sunny day! As you can imagine it wasn't my most productive day but I still managed to read a book chapter and work on the draft of a communication.

#my posts #studyblr #shakespeare and company #Paris #litblr #gradblr #phdblr

[without-ado]

Shakespeare and Company Paris (x)(x)

#book #books #bookworm #shakespeare and company #paris #bookstore #bookshop #library #libraries #quotes #words

[darkparisian]

I live,

But live to die: and, living, see no thing To make death hateful, save an innate clinging,

A loathsome and yet all-invincible Instinct of life, which I abhor, as I Despise myself, yet cannot overcome-And so I live. Would I had never lived!

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[sillypenguinwitch]

isaac's books in heartstopper s2

episode 1:

Tillie Walden: I Love This Part

Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé: Ace of Spades

episode 2:

Nina LaCour: We Are Okay

Oscar Wilde: The Importance of Being Earnest

episode 3:

Ocean Vuong: Night Sky with Exit Wounds (the one he is carrying under his arm, I'm assuming that's his and not for the display?)

has read: Ritch C. Savin-Williams: Bi: Bisexual, Pansexual, Fluid, and Nonbinary Youth

Emily Henry: Book Lovers

episode 4:

Victor Hugo: Les Misérables

Antoine De Saint-Exupéry: The Little Prince

Kate Chopin: The Awakening

Nina LaCour: We Are Okay (again)

episode 5:

Albert Camus: The Outsider

episode 6:

Martin Handford: Where's Wally? The Great Picture Hunt

Meredith Russo: Birthday

Jules Verne: Around the World in Eighty Days

Sara Pennypacker: Pax Anne Berest, Audrey Diwan, Caroline de Maigret, Sophie Mas: How to Be Parisian Wherever You Are ? ? ? Damian Dibben: The Color Storm Alice Oseman: Loveless Susan Stokes-Chapman: Pandora Katy Hessel: The Story of Art Without Men ? Evelyn Waugh: Rossetti Arthur Conan Doyle: The Hound of the Baskervilles A.O. Scott: Better Living Through Criticism ?: Then We Came to an End (?) Ruth Millington: Muse Dr. Jaqui Lewis: Fierce Love Charlotte Van Den Broek: Bold Ventures - Thirteen Tales of Architectural Tragedy ?

Richard Siken: Crush

episode 7:

Garrard Conley: Boy Erased

George Matthew Johnson: All Boys Aren't Blue

Samra Habib: We Have Always Been Here

episode 8:

Akemi Dawn Bowman: Summer Bird Blue

Angela Chen: Ace

bonus:

Truham school library pride display (seen in ep. 3 and 8):

top to bottom, left to right: Angela Chen: Ace Andrew Holleran: The Kingdom of Sand Mary Jean Chan and Andrew McMillan: 100 Queer Poems Scott Stuart: My Shadow Is Pink Lotte Jeffs: My Magic Family Tucker Shaw: When You Call My Name Ritch C. Savin-Williams: Bi - Pansexual, Fluid, Nonbinary and Fluid Youth Alok Vaid-Menon: Beyond the Gender Binary George M. Johnson: All Boys Aren’t Blue Mason Deaver: I Wish You All the Best Alex Gino: George Melissa

on top of shelves (left to right): Kevin Van Whye: Nate Plus One Xixi Tian: This Place is Still Beautiful Becky Albertalli: Leah on the Offbeat Mya-Rose Craig: Birdgirl Bernardine Evaristo: Girl, Woman, Other Connie Glynn: Princess Ever After Saundra Mitchell: The Prom

Charlie's choice at Shakespeare and Co (ep. 6): Allan Hollinghurst: The Swimming Pool Library

That's it for now.

Sorry about the ones i couldn't identify and sorry if i missed any! Might try and do some of the ones in Isaac's room later but that'll take a minute

#hearstopper #heartstopper s2 #isaac henderson #books #shakespeare and company #lgbt #charlie spring #alice oseman #aspec #aroace #aromantic #asexual #heartstopper season 2

[andallshallbewell]

#shakespeare and company #Paris #France #bookstore

[lascitasdelashoras]

Ezra Pound, Shakespeare and Co

#ezra pound #escritores #poesia #shakespeare and company #librería #paris

[onefootin1941]

Shakespeare and Company, a book store located in the heart of Paris, on the banks of the Seine.

Photograph: Bonnie Elliott for Shakespeare and Company

#shakespeare and company #book store #paris

[blackswaneuroparedux]

Be not inhospitable to strangers lest they be angels in disguise.

- W.B. Yeats

This is the quote from W.B. Yeats as a painted sign on the wall as you enter the famous bookstore Shakespeare and Company in Paris.

Strangers always found a welcome at Shakespeare and Company, where they could browse untroubled for hours, especially if they were aspiring writers themselves; and a few – well, a very few – of them may indeed have turned out to be angels, or at least angelic.

The original Shakespeare and Company shop was started in 1921 in the Rue de l’Odéon by Sylvia Beach, the daughter of a US Presbyterian minister. The first writer to patronise the shop was Gertrude Stein, but she fell out with Beach when she took up with James Joyce, whom Stein hated.

Beach published Joyce’s Ulysses when no established publisher would touch it, performing the arduous labour of love of proofreading it. Ernest Hemingway discovered the shop soon after his arrival in Paris, and wrote about it lovingly decades later in A Moveable Feast. When the Germans occupied Paris, Beach refused to sell a signed copy of Finnegans Wake to an invading officer. He said he would return for it the next day. So she moved all the books out and closed the shop. It was “liberated” by Hemingway himself in 1944. However, Beach didn’t have the heart to start again.

In 1948, after a wandering youth and war service, George Whitman came to Paris on the GI Bill, and in 1951 opened an English-language bookshop which he called Le Mistral. A few years later, he moved to the Rue de la Bûcherie, but didn’t rename the shop until after Beach’s death in 1961. He had been too shy to ask her if he could use the name, although they were friends and she used to come to readings at Le Mistral.

Whitman ran his shop as a species of anarchic democracy, even though in some respects he was a benevolent dictator. Anyone who called himself a writer could find a bed there, if there was one free, and stay as long as he liked or until Whitman got tired of him. The only rule for residents was that they must read a book a day and serve in the shop for an hour. One poet, or self-styled poet, who broke the second rule and lay in bed all day reading detective novels was ejected; but his chief offence was his choice of literature rather than his idleness.

The bookshop has its regulars, residents in Paris, not all of them English-speakers by any means, who use it as a sort of club and drop in for conversation and coffee.

Stock control has always been on the casual side. It’s not unknown for someone to lift a book from the shelves, slip it into his pocket, read it and return to sell it for the secondhand shelves the following day.

Inevitably, Shakespeare and Company has long been on the tourist trail, recommended in all the guides. This is just as well, because without their custom it’s hard to see how the shop could have survived. Many are in search of a copy of A Moveable Feast. This is not always on offer because, for some reason which I can’t remember, Whitman took a scunner to Hemingway. The tourists also toss coins into the well in the shop, and it’s not unusual to see an indigent young person lying on the floor and fishing for euros.

On occasion I drop in because the lure of its history is too much even if there are other good independent book stores nearby. Visitors to Paris always want me to take them there and I oblige them even if I feel its lost some of its past glory. Still, I always buy a few books because it’s the best way to support independent book stores in this age of Amazon, as every independent book store needs all the help it can get.

#yeats #wb yeats #quote #shakespeare and co #shakespeare and company #paris #book store #books #reading #historic #literature #sylvia beach #george whitman

[peacefulandcozy]

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[orthodoxsoul]

Shakespeare & Co. in Paris. One of my favorite bookstores on the planet.

#bookstore #shakespeare and company #angels #hospitality

[doctoreads]

The calm before the storm; Autumn is coming🍂

#dark academia #the secret history #shakespeare and company

[without-ado]

Shakespeare and Company l Paris l 1963 (x)

#book #books #photography #bookstore #independent bookstore #indie #bookshop #shakespeare and company #paris #reading #bookworm #library #libraries

[dazedoctober]

shakespeare and company, paris

#books #bookstore #shakespeare and company #paris france

[darkparisian]

Shakespeare & Co. bookstores throughout Europe

This summer I’ve been to the three Shakespeare & Co. bookstores there are in Europe.

The Parisian bookstore is by far the most amazing one, but being my home one might say I’m a little biased. The only problem with this bookstore now is the massive amount of tourists… but I don’t blame them, it really is worth a visit

The second one I’ve been is in Vienna, Austria such a cute store. Incredible ambience and even more incredible staff. So helpful and always with a smile. I loved there! At first it didn’t seem like a big store, but once you get to the end there’s a tiny corridor that takes to another section of the store and I found this so amazing!

The third and last one was the bookstore in Praha, Czech Republic. I really love this bookstore. The prices were by far the cheapest out of all three. The staff once again really amazing, and the store was huge !!! They transformed this old basement as part of the store and it was really cozy and I just sat there for almost an hour reading.

#moodboard #paris #praha #vienna #booksbooksbooks #books aesthetic #classic literature #summer #dark academia moodboard #dark academic aesthetic #dark academia #dark academia books #dark academia vibes #dark academia aesthetic #bookstore #old books #books & libraries #booklovers #shakespeare and company #author #authencity #books and coffee #dead poets society #writers and poets #reading #books and reading #travel #bookblr