The Enormous Room
by cummings, e.e. (Edward Estlin)
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Hagerstown, Maryland, 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
- Dorley House Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 078965
- Title
- The Enormous Room
- Author
- cummings, e.e. (Edward Estlin)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Publisher
- Modern Library
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1934
- Keywords
- CLASSICS
- Size
- 12 vo