Shakespeare and Company

Shakespeare and Company is a world famous bookstore located directly across the river from Notre Dame. The bookstore was owned by Sylvia Beach, an expatriate who helped many of the “Lost Generation” writers, like Hemingway and Fitzgerald, get their start. Joyce’s Ulysses was published out of the bookstore. Unfortunately, the bookstore is not in its original location, but nevertheless it’s worth seeing. The place, aside from its fame, is neat. Upstairs, there are reading rooms with beds where writers can find a place to sleep. If you buy a book here, they will stamp it with the bookstore name. When I was there, I bought The Picture of Dorian Gray as a keepsake.