The Enormous Room
by E. E. Cummings
- Used
- good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Good
- ISBN 10
- 0140032576
- ISBN 13
- 9780140032574
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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
- Book Haven (NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1522713
- Title
- The Enormous Room
- Author
- E. E. Cummings
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0140032576
- ISBN 13
- 9780140032574
- Publisher
- Penguin 1986 Paperback
- Place of Publication
- Harmondsworth
- This edition first published
- 1971
- Pages
- 268
- Keywords
- Historical Fiction, Classics
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