Shakespeare and Company was founded in 1951 by George Whitman, an American living in Paris. The building that the bookstore occupies was once a monastery called La Maison du Mustier.

The second-story window at the Shakespeare and Company bookstore in Paris looks out on the Cathédral de Notre-Dame. In springtime, pink cherry blossoms frame the view. At night, the cathedral is ...

Shakespeare and Company, the small, crumbling bookshop on Paris's Left Bank, may be the most famous bookstore in the world. It was the first place to publish the entirety of James Joyce’s ...

PARIS — Shakespeare and Company—the original Shakespeare and Company—is no more. The historic and iconic American bookshop in the City of Light, where an enraged Ernest Hemingway once ...

PARIS (AP) — Shakespeare and Company, the iconic Paris bookstore that published James Joyce’s “Ulysses” in 1922, is appealing to readers for support after pandemic-linked losses and France ...

Smoothing his wispy hair, George Whitman peered out of a second-floor window of his Shakespeare & Company bookstore in Paris at the customers lingering on the sidewalk below. Whitman cleared his ...

Famous English-language Paris bookstore Shakespeare and Company has lost nearly 80% of its revenue since the first pandemic shutdown in France. The owner of the shop is pleading for help.

PARIS (AP) — Shakespeare and Company, the iconic Paris bookstore that published James Joyce’s “Ulysses” in 1922, is appealing to readers for support after pandemic-linked losses and France ...

George Whitman, the owner of Shakespeare and Company, a bookshop that became the center of English-language literary life in Paris and might be the most famous and beloved bookstore in the world ...

Francois Mori / AP A man walks by the closed English and American literature Shakespeare and Co. bookstore in Paris, France, Thursday, Nov. 05, 2020.

PARIS – Shakespeare and Company, the iconic Paris bookstore that published James Joyce’s “Ulysses” in 1922, is appealing to readers for support after pandemic-linked losses and France’s ...