The Enormous Room
by Cummings, E. E
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good-
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Palm Springs, California, United States
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About This Item
First Modern Library Edition (so stated). Octavo. With new four page introduction. Original green cloth stamped gilt. Pictorial dust jacket designed by Barney Brienza of a prison scene. Very good (unclipped; few minor nicks). 332 pages. No signatures or bookplates.
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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Details
- Bookseller
- Houle Rare Books & Autographs (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2222366
- Title
- The Enormous Room
- Author
- Cummings, E. E
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good-
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Modern Library
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1934
- Pages
- 332
- Size
- Octavo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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