The Enormous Room
by Cummings, E.E
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
-
Redding, Connecticut, United States
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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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- Bookseller
- Quaker Hill Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000102
- Title
- The Enormous Room
- Author
- Cummings, E.E
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Publisher
- New York, 1922
- Keywords
- SIGNED/LIMITED.
- Bookseller catalogs
- NY2008;
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