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The Enormous Room
by Cummings, E.E
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- first
- Condition
- Spine darkened a shade, else close to fine without dust jacket, in a custom made cloth slipcase.
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About This Item
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1922. First edition. Spine darkened a shade, else close to fine without dust jacket, in a custom made cloth slipcase.. 8vo, 271pp; cloth. The poet's autobiographical novel based on his experience in a French prison camp in the First World War. This is from the second issue, with the word "shit" censored on p. 219.
Synopsis
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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- Locus Solus Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 204943
- Title
- The Enormous Room
- Author
- Cummings, E.E
- Book Condition
- Used - Spine darkened a shade, else close to fine without dust jacket, in a custom made cloth slipcase.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Boni and Liveright
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1922
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