The Enormous Room.
by CUMMINGS, E.E
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- first
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LONDON, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Boni and Liveright, New York., 1922. First edition. First issue, with the word ''shit'' intact in the last line of page 219. In later issues the word was blocked out. Octavo. 271 pages. The author's first book and one of the cornerstones of First World War literature.At page 111 a reader seems to have had a slight accident with a cup of tea or coffee which has left two spots on the margin and one or two others on the fore-edge. Contemporary (1925) ownership signature on front free endpaper. Small bookseller's ticket to rear pastedown. Rear inner hinge starting but tight. A few spots to fore-edge. Covers a bit darkened at spine and edges. Very good. No dustwrapper.
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
- Peter Ellis bookseller
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- CUMMINGS012552
- Title
- The Enormous Room.
- Author
- CUMMINGS, E.E
- Book Condition
- Used
- Publisher
- Boni and Liveright, New York.
- Date Published
- 1922
- Keywords
- world war one
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