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The Enormous Room

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First published
1922
Pages
225

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10 h 46 min · 16 parts

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  1. Introduction

    16:12

  2. I Begin a Pilgrimage

    42:23

  3. En Route

    27:58

  4. A Pilgrim's Progress

    49:04

  5. Le Nouveau, Part 1

    45:29

  6. Le Nouveau, Part 2

    49:51

  7. A Group of Portraits

    51:53

  8. Apollyon

    57:19

  9. An Approach to the Delectable Mountains, Part 1

    42:24

  10. An Approach to the Delectable Mountains, Part 2

    33:41

  11. The Wanderer

    28:53

  12. Zoo-Loo

    41:33

  13. Surplice

    30:51

  14. Jean le Nègre

    49:42

  15. Three Wise Men

    39:20

  16. I Say Good-Bye to La Misère

    39:39

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In 1917 Cummings volunteered as an ambulance driver in France, and within months he was arrested on suspicion of disloyalty after refusing to disown a friend's anti-war letters. This autobiographical novel recounts the four months he spent in a makeshift military detention camp at La Ferte-Mace, held without charge in a single great room crowded with prisoners from across Europe. Rather than dwell on grievance, Cummings turns his captivity into a celebration of the outcasts and eccentrics around him, rendered in the restless, playful, wildly inventive prose that would soon mark his poetry. It stands among the finest American books to come out of the First World War. This free PDF and EPUB edition brings his early prose masterpiece to new readers.

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E. E. Cummings

E. E. Cummings (1894-1962) was an American poet, painter, and novelist celebrated for his radical experiments with typography, punctuation, and syntax. He published nearly 2,900 poems along with plays and essays; The Enormous Room, based on his wartime imprisonment, was his first major book of prose.

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Book facts

First published
1922
Reading time
About 7 hours
Pages
225
Language
English
Genre
Memoir
Formats
PDF, EPUB, Read online, Audiobook