Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation: A History of Literary Paris in the Twenties and Thirties

Noël Riley Fitch

W. W. Norton & Company, 1985 - Literary Collections - 447 pages

Noel Riley Fitch has written a perfect book, full to the brim with literary history, correct and whole-hearted both in statement and in implication. She makes me feel and remember a good many things that happened before and after my time. I'm glad to have lived long enough to read it. --Glenway Wescott

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Review: Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation: A History of Literary Paris in the Twenties and Thirties

User Review  - Kim - Goodreads

Earlier this year I read Sylvia Beach's memoir of the 1920s and 1930s in Paris, Shakespeare and Company, named for the English language bookshop and lending library she founded in 1922. I found it an ...

Review: Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation: A History of Literary Paris in the Twenties and Thirties

User Review  - Erica Gees - Goodreads

A detailed thesis on the star of a litterary place and time that brought so many significant writers and artists in to her orbit.

Contents

• I: 11
• II: 13
• III: 19
• IV: 42
• V: 65
• VI: 93
• VII: 115
• VIII: 141
• IX: 162
• X: 183
• XI: 221
• XII: 241
• XIII: 262
• XIV: 282
• XV: 301
• XVI: 324
• XVII: 343
• XVIII: 358
• XIX: 375
• XX: 393
• XXI: 406

About the author

Noel Riley Fitch is a historian, biographer, and lecturer. She occasionally teaches writing and literature courses for the University of Southern California and the American University in Paris. Her permanent home is in Los Angeles.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation: A History of Literary Paris in the Twenties and Thirties; A Norton paperback; Biography, Literatura
• Author: Noël Riley Fitch
• Edition: illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 1985
• ISBN: 0393302318, 9780393302318
• Length: 447 pages
• Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / General; Literary Collections / General