Description:
The most famous bookstore on the Left Bank is Shakespeare and Company, on rue de l'Odéon, home to Sylvia Beach, "mother confessor to the Lost Generation." Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and Stein were frequent patrons, as was Anaïs Nin, the diarist noted for her description of struggling American artists in 1930s Paris. Nin helped her companion, Henry Miller, publish Tropic of Cancer, a book so notorious in its day that returning Americans who tried to slip copies through Customs often had them confiscated as pornography. (When times were hard, Nin herself wrote pornography for a dollar a page.) Long ago, the shop moved to rue de la Bûcherie, a musty old place where expatriates still swap books and literary gossip and foreign students work in exchange for modest lodgings. Check out the lending library upstairs. Open daily 11am to midnight.
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Awards:
Frommer's
- Recommended 2010
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Contact:
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- tel: +33 1 4325 4093
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Address:
- 37 rue de la Bûcherie, 5e
- Paris 75005
Neighborhood:
6th Arrondissement - Rive GaucheStrenuousness:
- Easy
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