Famous Paris book store ‘overwhelmed’ after appeal for help

Famous Paris book store Shakespeare and Co (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

Shakespeare and Company, the Paris book store that published James Joyce’s Ulysses in 1922, hailed the response following an appeal to readers for support after pandemic-linked losses and France’s spring lockdown put the future of the famous Left Bank institution in doubt.

The English-language book shop on the River Seine sent an email to customers last week to inform them that it was facing “hard times” and to encourage them to buy a book.