Includes bibliographical references and index.

Front Matter -- Frontispiece -- Preliminary Material -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- "Who is Sylvia? What is She?" -- Editors' Introduction -- Letters 1921-1939 -- Figures -- The Letters of Sylvia Beach to James Joyce or Paul Léon 1921-1939 -- Introduction to the 1920s / Author: Ruth Frehner -- The Letters of Sylvia Beach to James Joyce, 1921-1929 -- Introduction to the 1930s / Author: Ursula Zeller -- The Letters of Sylvia Beach to James Joyce, 1930-1939 -- Back Matter -- Appendix A Chronology of Major Events 1917-1941 -- Appendix B Survey of Correspondence between Sylvia Beach and James Joyce or Paul Léon -- Appendix C Survey of Correspondence re Frankfurter Zeitung Affair -- Appendix D Joyce's Book Orders through Sylvia Beach -- Appendix E Currencies: Historical Values and Their Equivalent in 2020 -- Bibliography -- Index.

This is the first-time publication of long-lost letters by a crucial figure in modernist publishing. Carefully edited and extensively contextualised, they document Beach's unwavering, all-embracing support for Joyce's art by publishing his controversial Ulysses in Paris in 1922 and other efforts such as getting fragments of Work in Progress published. They also reveal her difficulties with his uncompromising and demanding personality, as it is vividly illustrated in the Frankfurter Zeitung affair. The edition moreover includes all extant letters to Paul Léon, her successor after their break-up following severe disagreements over the American edition of Ulysses. Joyceans and scholars of modernism will find this an indispensable resource for further research.

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