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The Visual and Literary Connection of Man Ray and James Joyce
Man Ray, the pioneering American visual artist known for his avant-garde photography and Dadaist creations, had a fascinating and often...
Adrienne Monnier, La Maison des Amis des Livres and Ulysses
Adrienne Monnier, a luminary in the Parisian literary scene, played a vital role in the publication and promotion of James Joyce’s...
First Edition of Ulysses sells for $460,500 at Christie’s in New York
James Joyce’s Ulysses first edition copies have become prized items in the world of rare book auctions, fetching remarkable prices and...
James Joyce c. 1922: Living in Paris, and grappling with a tumultuous mix of personal and professional challenges that would define his later life
Although Ulysses had been published to much acclaim in February 1922, the novel was also at the centre of a maelstrom of legal and...
Sylvia Beach, founder of Shakespeare and Company and the first publisher of Ulysses
Sylvia Beach, an American expatriate in Paris, is celebrated as a literary luminary who left an indelible mark on the modernist literary...
Ernest Hemingway’s Early Years: Shakespeare and Company and the Smuggling of Ulysses
In 1921, a young Ernest Hemingway, brimming with ambition and literary dreams, walked into Shakespeare and Company, a bookstore in Paris...
Judge John Woolsey and "United States v. One Book Called Ulysses”
Judge John M. Woolsey is a pivotal figure in the history of literary censorship in the United States, best known for his landmark 1933...
Sylvia Beach, founder of Shakespeare and Company, where "Ulysses lay stacked like dynamite in a revolutionary cellar"
Born as Nancy Woodbridge Beach on March 14, 1887, in Baltimore, Maryland, Sylvia would later choose her name — a name that would resonate...
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