Shakespeare and Company is an English - language bookshop in the heart of Paris. It (be) a meeting place for writers and readers for almost seventy years.
In 1951, a bookshop (name) Le Mistral was opened by George Whitman. It was renamed Shakespeare and Company in 1964 honor of a bookseller he admired, Sylvia Beach, who founded the (origin) Shakespeare and Company in 1919. Beach's bookstore had been a gathering place for great writers of the time, including Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and Pound.
George's bookstore quickly became a center for literary life. From the first day, writers, artists, and intellectuals were invited (sleep) for free among the shelves. Since then, an estimated 30, 000 people have stayed in the bookshop. Over the years, the shop (gradual) grew. George said, "I (create) this bookstore like a man would write a novel, building each room like chapter, and I like people to open the door the way they open a book."
Today George's novel, this bookshop, is still being written by George's child Sylvia, by a team of (bookseller), and by the thousands of people continue to read, write, and sleep at Shakespeare and Company.
