The Enormous Room (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin)
by e. e. cummings
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In 1917 young Edward Estlin Cummings went to France as a volunteer with a Red Cross ambulance unit on the western front. But his free-spirited, insubordinate ways soon got him tagged as a possible enemy of La Patrie, and he was summarily tossed into a French concentration camp at La Ferte-Mace in Normandy. Under the vilest conditions, Cummings found fulfillment of his ever elusive quest for freedom. The Enormous Room , his account of his four-month confinement, reads like a latter-day Pilgrim's Progress, a journey into dispossession, to a place among the most debased and deprived of human creatures. Cummings's hopeful tone reflects the essential paradox of his existence: to lose everything is to become free, and so to be saved.
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- Title
- The Enormous Room (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin)
- Author
- e. e. cummings
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used:Good
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- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0141181249
- ISBN 13
- 9780141181240
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York
- Date Published
- 1999-05-01
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