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Enormous Room (The Cummings Typescript Editions)

by Cummings, E.E

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9780246110466
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New York: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, 1979. First Thus. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. First Thus, First Printing of Typescript Edition. Hard cover 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall in stamped tobacco brown cloth w/gold spine titles. Near Fine book in like unclipped DJ, w/worn top edge and 1/2" tear top rear panel, now in clear protective cover. Dust line front board edges, offset front endpaper, stained vertical edge; square w/firm binding, bright white pages clean and unmarked. xxvi, 275pp inc. Introduction by Robert S. Kennedy, Afterword; this edition illustrated in drawings by the Author. 320 p.

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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
Enormous Room (The Cummings Typescript Editions)
Author
Cummings, E.E
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Near Fine
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Near Fine
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Edition
First Thus.
ISBN 10
0246110465
ISBN 13
9780246110466
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Place of Publication
New York
Date Published
1979
Size
8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
Keywords
FICTION LITERATURE 20TH CENTURY
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