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The Enormous Room (Warbler Classics)

The Enormous Room (Warbler Classics)

Cummings, E. E.
Headrick, Paul

Paperback

Classic FictionGeneral FictionHistorical Fiction

Publisher Price: $14.95

ISBN10: 1954525257
ISBN13: 9781954525252
Publisher: Warbler Classics
Published: Apr 17 2021
Pages: 280
Weight: 0.79
Height: 0.63 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

The Enormous Room is a fictionalized autobiographical account of the three months that E. E. Cummings spent in a French prison under suspicion of espionage-a circumstance he could have easily avoided had he professed a hatred of Germans. Instead, when questioned, Cummings answered French authorities in a way that insured that he would accompany his friend B. (William Slater Brown), who was indeed guilty of writing letters critical of the French government. The psychologically tense narrative-shocking and provocative in its day-juxtaposes the barbarity and inhumanity of war against the camaraderie and collective spirit of the oppressed. As a piece of writing, it foreshadows the whimsy, humor, pessimism, and jubilance that would come to characterize Cummings's poetry while, on its own, it stands as a major work of World War I literature. This Warbler Classics edition includes Paul Headrick's essay Brilliant Obscurity: The Reception of The Enormous Room, as well as a detailed biographical timeline.

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