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Create one here Create an account Cart is emptysearch 0 Sign in Books Books Our Bestsellers Fiction Non-Fiction Poetry Shakespeare Essays Mystery & Crime Sci-Fi, Fantasy & Horror Politics & Economics Children & Young Adults Arts & Music French Interest Graphic Novels & Mangas Gifts & Merchandise Rare Books Tote bags Yearly subscription Gifts Shakespeare and Company - Paris Podcasts Events History Café Contact menu search 0 Sign in Shakespeare and Company - Paris Books Books Our Bestsellers Fiction Non-Fiction Poetry Shakespeare Essays Mystery & Crime Sci-Fi, Fantasy & Horror Politics & Economics Children & Young Adults Arts & Music French Interest Graphic Novels & Mangas Gifts & Merchandise Rare Books Tote bags Yearly subscriptionGifts Podcasts Events History Café Contact Our Bestsellers Fiction Non-Fiction Poetry Shakespeare Essays Mystery & Crime Sci-Fi, Fantasy & Horror Politics & Economics Children & Young Adults Arts & Music French Interest Graphic Novels & Mangas Gifts & Merchandise Rare Books Our Bestsellers Fiction Non-Fiction Poetry Shakespeare Essays Mystery & Crime Sci-Fi, Fantasy & Horror Politics & Economics Children & Young Adults Arts & Music French Interest Graphic Novels & Mangas Gifts & Merchandise Rare Books Dear Customers,Website orders and inquiries are processed from Monday to Friday.Books listed on the website are not necessarily in stock at the bookshop.Thank you for your understanding ❤Chers clients,Les commandes internet sont traitées du lundi au vendredi.Les livres répertoriés sur le site ne sont pas forcément en stock à la librairie.Merci pour votre compréhension ❤ Independent Bookstore Events & Podcasts Bloomcast Holiday Special This December—six months after saying goodbye—Bloomcast is back for a Holiday Special! Join Alice, Lex and Adam as they answer your questions, play games, tease each other, drink (tea, whiskey, Gimber) and leap off Forty Foot and into Ulysses one more (one last?) time… Sarah Churchwell on Gone with the Wind, January 6th, and the Lies America Tells The Wrath to Come: Gone with the Wind and the Lies America Tells provides a powerful critique of the book and film, and an excoriating analysis of how it has shaped the way Americans understand their country, rewrite their history, and excuse their crimes. Hunchback of Notre-Dame Special! To celebrate the launch of our exclusive S&Co edition of Victor Hugo’s The Hunchback of Notre-Dame—as well as a limited-edition gift bundle featuring a signed print of the beautiful cover art—Adam is joined by Krista Halverson, S&Co Publishing Director, and artist Neil Gower, to discuss this extraordinary classic of French literature. Tom Mustill on How to Speak Whale How to Speak Whale is an investigation into the possibility, or otherwise, of human cetacean dialogue. It looks into the history of our relationship with these creatures—in some important ways so similar to us, in others, so profoundly different. It lays out our various attempts to interpret their song, and looks at how big data, combined with an open source philosophy might allow us to create a “Google Translate for animals”. View all Books View all Ulysses bookmarks favorite date_range Ulysses Joyce, James 27.00 € Add to cart Yearly subscription View Year of Reading favorite Shakespeare and Company Year of Reading 285.00 € Add to cart Rare Books View all Song of Solomon favorite Song of Solomon Morrison, Toni 850.00 € Add to cart Gifts & Merch View all The Hunchback of Notre-Dame Bundle favorite The Hunchback of Notre-Dame Bundle Hugo, Victor 55.00 € Add to cart “Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.” ― James Joyce, Ulysses Our Merch Gifts & Merch View all Limited Edition Navy Facade Tote favorite Dark Façade Tote Bag 16.00 € Add to cart Gifts & Merch View all Shakespeare and Company Oscar Wilde Notebook favorite Shakespeare and Company Oscar Wilde Notebook 10.00 € Add to cart View all November 2022 new titles January new titles bookmarks The End of Nightwork Cottrell-Boyce, Aidan 18.00 € Add to cart bookmarks Tell Me an Ending Harkin, Jo 14.00 € Add to cart bookmarks Hell Bent Bardugo, Leigh 21.00 € Pre-order bookmarks Really Good, Actually Heisey, Monica 18.00 € Pre-order bookmarks The Shards Ellis, Bret Easton 21.00 € Pre-order bookmarks Your Wish Is My Command Mohamed, Deena 27.00 € Pre-order bookmarks Away From Beloved Lover Peyok, Dee 23.00 € Add to cart bookmarks Fear of Black Consciousness Gordon, Lewis R. 18.00 € Add to cart bookmarks The Vanished Collection Baer de Perignon, Pauline 16.00 € Add to cart bookmarks Dirty Work Press, Eyal 16.00 € Add to cart bookmarks How To Be an Antiracist Kendi, Ibram X. 23.00 € Add to cart bookmarks The Treeline Rawlence, Ben 16.00 € Pre-order bookmarks Stolen Focus Hari, Johann 16.00 € Pre-order bookmarks Pandora Stokes-Chapman, Susan 13.00 € Add to cart bookmarks The Ink Dark Moon Shikibu, Izumi, Komachi, Ono no 16.00 € Add to cart bookmarks Sonnets Shakespeare, William 16.00 € Add to cart bookmarks Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair Neruda, Pablo 16.00 € Add to cart View all Our gift ideas selection Our gifts selection bookmarks The Little Prince de Saint-Exupery, Antoine 16.00 € Add to cart bookmarks A Ballet of Lepers Cohen, Leonard 27.00 € Add to cart bookmarks Healing Through Words Kaur, Rupi 23.00 € Add to cart bookmarks MIDWINTER MURDER: Fireside Mysteries from the Q... Christie, Agatha 21.00 € Add to cart bookmarks A Book of Days Smith, Ms Patti 34.00 € Add to cart bookmarks Wild Card Cownie, Jen, Lensvelt, Fiona 21.00 € Add to cart bookmarks Cerys Matthews' Under Milk Wood Thomas, Dylan, Matthews, Cerys 27.00 € Add to cart bookmarks The Philosophy of Modern Song Dylan, Bob 47.00 € Add to cart View all Our signed books selection Signed Books bookmarks Grace the Giraffe in Paris Gee, Oliver, Gee, Lina Nordin 22.00 € Add to cart bookmarks I Fear My Pain Interests You : A Novel 14.00 € Add to cart bookmarks The Candy House Egan, Jennifer 19.00 € Add to cart bookmarks Firekeeper's Daughter Boulley, Angeline 13.00 € Add to cart bookmarks Désert Dévorant Gysin, Brion 125.00 € Add to cart bookmarks Autograph Letter Signed Auden, W. H. 575.00 € Add to cart View all Newsletter Sign-up for our newsletter Sign up to our monthly newsletter for information about the bookshop, upcoming events and our latest recommendations. Friends of... Shakespeare and Company is a nonprofit—created in response to the pandemic and its financial consequences—to support the bookshop’s noncommercial activities, including our free author events, first-floor library, weekly podcast, and writers’ rooms, with views on Notre-Dame, where more than 30,000 poets and authors have stayed the night gratis in Paris since 1951. Become a member Events 23 September 2022 - 1:00 PM 23 September 2022 Festival America Join us at Festival America from Thursday 22 to Sunday 25 September, where Shakespeare and Company will have a pop-up store in the Salon du Livre. Find out more on the festival website. 16 June 2022 - 2:00 PM 16 June 2022 Bloomsday! We celebrated the centenary of Ulysses with an afternoon at Shakespeare and Company on Thursday June 16th. To listen to Friends of Shakespeare and Company read Ulysses by James Joyce, click here, or subscribe now wherever you get your podcasts. Future Events Due to ongoing building works we are not currently hosting events. We hope to resume in 2023, and can't wait to see you all then! View all Podcasts Bloomcast Holiday Special This December—six months after saying goodbye—Bloomcast is back for a Holiday Special! Join Alice, Lex and Adam as they answer your questions, play games, tease each other, drink (tea, whiskey, Gimber) and leap off Forty Foot and into Ulysses one more (one last?) time… Sarah Churchwell on Gone with the Wind, January 6th, and the Lies America Tells The Wrath to Come: Gone with the Wind and the Lies America Tells provides a powerful critique of the book and film, and an excoriating analysis of how it has shaped the way Americans understand their country, rewrite their history, and excuse their crimes. Hunchback of Notre-Dame Special! To celebrate the launch of our exclusive S&Co edition of Victor Hugo’s The Hunchback of Notre-Dame—as well as a limited-edition gift bundle featuring a signed print of the beautiful cover art—Adam is joined by Krista Halverson, S&Co Publishing Director, and artist Neil Gower, to discuss this extraordinary classic of French literature. View all History “I created this bookstore like a man would write a novel, building each room like a chapter, and I like people to open the door the way they open a book, a book that leads into a magic world in their imaginations.” — George Whitman Shakespeare and Company, Paris: A History of the Rag & Bone Shop of the Heart favorite Shakespeare and Company, Paris: A History of the Rag & Bone Shop of the Heart Halverson, Krista 35.00 € A Brief History of a Parisian Bookstore Shakespeare and Company is an English-language bookshop in the heart of Paris, on the banks of the Seine, opposite Notre-Dame. Since opening in 1951, it’s been a meeting place for anglophone writers and readers, becoming a Left Bank literary institution. The bookshop was founded by American George Whitman at 37 rue de la Bûcherie, Kilometer Zero, the point at which all French roads begin. Constructed in the early 17th century, the building was originally a monastery, La Maison du Mustier. George liked to pretend he was the sole surviving monk, saying, “In the Middle Ages, each monastery had a frère lampier, a monk whose duty was to light the lamps at nightfall. I’m the frère lampier here now. It’s the modest role I play.” When the store first opened, it was called Le Mistral. George changed it to the present name in April 1964—on the four-hundredth anniversary of William Shakespeare’s birth—in honor of a bookseller he admired, Sylvia Beach, who’d founded the original Shakespeare and Company in 1919. Her store at 12 rue de l’Odéon was a gathering place for the great expat writers of the time—Joyce, Hemingway, Stein, Fitzgerald, Eliot, Pound—as well as for leading French writers. Through his bookstore, George Whitman endeavored to carry on the spirit of Beach’s shop, and it quickly became a center for expat literary life in Paris. Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, Anaïs Nin, Richard Wright, William Styron, Julio Cortázar, Henry Miller, William Saroyan, Lawrence Durrell, James Jones, and James Baldwin were among early visitors to the shop. View all Shakespeare and Company 37 rue de la Bûcherie, 75005 Paris, France Opening hours of the Bookshop & café Sell your books - Working With Us - Tumbleweeding - Publishing Avec le soutien de www.centrenationaldulivre.fr Terms & Conditions Refunds Privacy Policy Credits FAQs