Enormous Room (The Cummings Typescript Editions)
by Cummings, E.E
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0246110465
- ISBN 13
- 9780246110466
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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
- Basement Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 027124
- Title
- Enormous Room (The Cummings Typescript Editions)
- Author
- Cummings, E.E
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- 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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- Literature;
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