"Time was Soft There" and pamphlet from Shakespeare & Co."Time was Soft There" - a memoir of Jeremy Mercer's sojourn working at Shakespeare & Company bookstore in Paris. A tale of the City of Lights, eccentric characters, time gone by, and books, books, and more books. This is a story of George Whitman who revived the bookshop, in 1951, 10 years after the original (founded by Sylvia Beach in 1919) was closed down by the Nazi occupation. It's the story of thousands of young men and women who have passed through the shop, staying and working for a few months, on their way to everywhere in the world. It is the story of a love of books, a love of people, and a love of Paris.
Me in front of Shakespeare & Co. - 2004
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