The Enormous Room by E. E. Cummings

"The Enormous Room" by E. E. Cummings is an autobiographical novel published in 1922 about his imprisonment in France during World War I. After standing by his friend who expressed anti-war sentiments, Cummings was arrested and spent over four months in a prison at La Ferté-Macé. The book chronicles his picaresque adventures and the colorful characters he encountered, written in Cummings's unconventional style mixed with the witty voice of a young Harvard intellectual navigating an absurd situation. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author Cummings, E. E. (Edward Estlin), 1894-1962
Title The Enormous Room
Note Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Enormous_Room
Credits Eric Eldred, Thomas Berger, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team
Reading Level Reading ease score: 69.2 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read.
Language English
LoC Class PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature
Subject Autobiographical fiction
Subject War stories
Subject France -- Fiction
Subject Americans -- France -- Fiction
Subject World War, 1914-1918 -- France -- Fiction
Subject Concentration camp inmates -- Fiction
Subject Concentration camps -- Fiction
Subject Ambulance drivers -- Fiction
Category Text
eBook-No. 8446
Release Date
Last Update Aug 1, 2021
Copyright Public domain in the USA.
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