![]() | Paris Was a Woman
Buy new: $26.99 / Used from: $14.99 American men weren't the only ones in Paris during the literary exodus of the 20's. This documentary showcases the ladies who were also there - Janet Flanner, Gertrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas, Sylvia Beach, Djuna Barnes, Natalie Barney and Josephine Baker.
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![]() | Henry & June
Buy used from: $14.35 Not technically the 20's, but very evocative of Jazz Age Paris. Another steamy flick! Henry Miller would not have become the writer he did without Anais' support. They remained close friends until her death.
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![]() | The Moderns
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $2.95 I'm a sucker for a good Alan Rudolph film and this one's a great one. A fictionalized Hemingway is writing "The Sun Also Rises" throughout the movie and you get a view of what a night at Gertrude & Alice's home on the Rue de Fleureus was like.
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![]() | Everybody Was So Young: Gerald and Sara Murphy: A Lost Generation Love Story by Amanda Vaill
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $0.52 The Jazz Age couple who befriended most of the era's best writers and inspired some of their work. Gerald went to Yale with Cole Porter and they were the best of friends. Picasso had a bit of crush on Sara and, though they were good friends to him and his wife, were constantly fictionalized by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
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![]() | Making It New: The Art and Style of Sara and Gerald Murphy
Buy new: $23.07 / Used from: $11.95 Gerald and Sara Murphy were the center of a select circle of American expatriates in the 1920's. Gerald was a celebrated artist in his time and Sara was his muse and inspiration. They also made summering in Cap D'Antibes fashionable when it was still highly unusual. This excellent book celebrates their lifestyle.
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![]() | A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
Buy new: $10.80 / Used from: $0.75 Posthumously published memoir of Hemingway's early days in Paris. He pokes fun at Miss Stein and Miss Barney's literary salons, which got on my nerves. Gertrude may have been proud, but she honestly helped Ernest get around during his early days in Paris.
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![]() | Nightwood by Djuna Barnes
Buy used from: $0.01 The excellent and controversial book by Djuna Barnes, it's a semi-autobiographical work detailing aspects of her relationship with Thelma Wood.
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![]() | Ulysses by James Joyce
Buy new: $12.21 / Used from: $4.19 Landmark book by James Joyce...
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![]() | Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation: A History of Literary Paris in the Twenties and Thirties by Noel Riley Fitch
Buy new: $14.93 / Used from: $3.50 ...and the woman who supported him, published him, went nearly bankrupt and was never rewarded monetarily for her efforts. Joyce took his masterpiece, collected his check and never paid her a dime. Sylvia was always humble about her role in Joyce's success.
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![]() | Women of the Left Bank by Shari Benstock
Buy new: $23.07 / Used from: $4.00 More written history about the women in Paris during the 20's.
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![]() | Paris Was Yesterday, 1925-1939 by Janet (Genet) Flanner
Buy new: $14.40 / Used from: $4.50 Janet Flanner's "Letter from Paris" collection as published in the New Yorker. The first of many excellent collections.
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![]() | Wild Heart, a Life: Natalie Clifford Barney's Journey from Victorian America to the Literary Salons of Paris by Suzanne Rodriguez
Buy used from: $0.01 Natalie Clifford Barney was a feminist and out lesbian who unabashedly lived her life as she saw fit. Sadly, most of her writings have not been translated to English which would attract a larger audience to her.
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![]() | The Very Rich Hours of Adrienne Monnier by Adrienne Monnier
Buy used from: $1.86 Adrienne Monnier, owner of La Maison des Amis des Livres was a pinnacle of literary Paris. Her shop was across the street from Shakespeare & Co. She and Sylvia were lovers for many years and were neighborhood friends with Gertrude/Alice.
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![]() | The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $1.14 Bestseller from the first serious collector of Picasso's works. Miss Stein's salon was predominately about art, though literature was a feature as well.
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![]() | A Perilous Advantage: The Best of Natalie Clifford Barney by Natalie Clifford Barney
Buy used from: $5.80 A collection of Natalie's works, including some of her pensees.
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![]() | Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $8.50 Mrs. Parker and the Algonquin Round Table. Though it's not depicted in the film, she was also a friend of Sara & Gerald Murphy and vacationed with them on occasion, especially they temporarily relocated to Switzerland when their first son got ill.
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![]() | Sometimes Madness Is Wisdom: Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald: A Marriage (Ballantine Reader's Circle) by Kendall Taylor
Buy used from: $0.01 Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald were so popular that W.R. Hearst hired a reporter to follow them around from continent to continent. He stole from her diaries to create his worst selling (and best known) novel "The Great Gatsby" and based the character of Daisy on her.
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![]() | The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Buy new: $9.83 / Used from: $0.32 If you read the biography of Zelda & F.Scott first, you'll find out that this story was inspired by one of Zelda's affairs. One that her husband passively encouraged her to have. Daisy was patterned after Zelda
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