"In 1917, after the entry of America into World War I, E. E. Cummings, arecent graduate of Harvard College, volunteered to serve on an ambulance corps in France. Arrived in Paris with a new friend, William Slater Brown, the two young men set about living it up in the big city before heading off to their assignment. Once in the field, they wrote irreverent letters about their experiences which attracted the attention of the censors and ultimately led to their arrest. They were held for months in a military detention camp, ...
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"In 1917, after the entry of America into World War I, E. E. Cummings, arecent graduate of Harvard College, volunteered to serve on an ambulance corps in France. Arrived in Paris with a new friend, William Slater Brown, the two young men set about living it up in the big city before heading off to their assignment. Once in the field, they wrote irreverent letters about their experiences which attracted the attention of the censors and ultimately led to their arrest. They were held for months in a military detention camp, sharing a single large room with a host of fellow detainees. It is this experience that Cummings relates in lightly fictionalized form in The Enormous Room, a book in which a tale of woe becomes an occasion of exuberant mischief. A free-spirited novel that displays the same formal swagger as Cummings' poems, a stinging denunciation of the stupidity of military authority, and a precursor to later books like Catch-22 and MASH, Cummings' novel is an audacious, uninhibited, lyrical, and lasting contribution to American literature"--
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Add this copy of Enormous Room to cart. $29.70, good condition, Sold by Anybook rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Lincoln, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1978 by Granada.
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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. In good all round condition. Dust jacket in good condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 600grams, ISBN: 0246110465.
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$34.81
Add this copy of Enormous Room Cummings, E. E. to cart. $34.81, Sold by Gareth Roberts rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Rhydcymerau, Llandeilo, CARMARTHESHIRE, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1979 by HarperCollins Publishers Ltd.
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Reader copy. EX library hardback with DJ. Usual stamps/markings. Published in 1978 by Granada Publishing, St. Albans. DJ is worn/faded & page edges little grubby otherwise a clean, sound copy. Extensively illustrtaed throughout by the author. Ready for immediate despatch from UK. BS-4A*