Guided by her partner Adrienne Monnier, whose French-language bookshop and imprint La Maison des Amis des Livres was an inspiration for Beach, Beach and Joyce designed a prospectus for Ulysses created a publication plan coordinated with Monnier’s printer, Imprimerie Darantiere in Dijon and distributed the novel-and later fought against its piracy and censorship. When no publisher would take on the book, Beach offered to publish it through Shakespeare and Company, her lending library and bookshop that had become a home to members of the expatriate group now known as the Lost Generation. As Beach memorably relates in her memoir Shakespeare and Company, Joyce had despaired of ever finding a publisher for Ulysses due to the novel’s censorship when it was serialized in The Little Review. The exhibition’s title comes from a poem Joyce wrote to Beach in gratitude for her efforts in publishing his book. edition, published by Random House in 1934 and inscribed to her by Joyce.īooks ordered by James Joyce from Shakespeare and Company, in Sylvia Beach’s hand. censorship, including Beach’s personal copy of the first authorized U.S. UB’s Poetry Collection is the home of the world’s largest and most comprehensive James Joyce Collection, and this exhibit features many rarely seen items from the collection, including ephemeral material related to Shakespeare and Company Lending Library, production and distribution materials related to Ulysses, and materials documenting the book’s piracy in Two Worlds Monthly and U.S.
Published by Beach’s imprint Shakespeare and Company on February 2, 1922-Joyce’s 40 th birthday- Ulysses is widely considered to be one of the most influential books published in English in the twentieth century.
This exhibit celebrates the centenary of Ulysses by James Joyce through highlighting the contributions of its publisher, Sylvia Beach. The Poetry Collection is pleased to announce its new exhibition, “That all books might published be”: Sylvia Beach’s Ulysses.
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