The enormous room.
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New York : The Modern library, [1949].
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Book
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332 pages ; 19 cm.
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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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APA Citation (style guide)
Cummings, E. E. 1. (1949). The enormous room. New York, The Modern library.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Cummings, E. E. 1894-1962. 1949. The Enormous Room. New York, The Modern library.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Cummings, E. E. 1894-1962, The Enormous Room. New York, The Modern library, 1949.
MLA Citation (style guide)Cummings, E. E. 1894-1962. The Enormous Room. New York, The Modern library, 1949.
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