The Enormous Room
by Cummings, E.E
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Publisher's brown cloth. Cloth worn at spine ends, front cover tender
- Seller
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HACKETTSTOWN, New Jersey, 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
- The Old Mill Bookshop (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 264118
- Title
- The Enormous Room
- Author
- Cummings, E.E
- Format/Binding
- 271 pp. 1 vols. 8vo
- Book Condition
- Used - Publisher's brown cloth. Cloth worn at spine ends, front cover tender
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition, second state, with "Shit!" inked over in last lin
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Boni & Liveright
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1922
- Keywords
- American | E.E Cummings
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- Second State
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- First Edition
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- Cloth
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