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The Enormous Room (The Green-Eyed Stores) is a 1922 autobiographical novel by the poet and novelist E. E. Cummings about his temporary imprisonment in France during World War I. Background [ edit ] Cummings served as an ambulance driver during the war.
- E. E. Cummings
- 1922
George. 2,574 reviews. August 25, 2020. 3.5 stars. An interesting autobiographical novel about the American author's experiences as a prisoner in France for four months in 1917. 'Enormous Room' refers to a large room where Cummings slept beside 30 or so other prisoners. At the time the author was 23 years old.
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Jul 1, 2005 · The Enormous Room Credits: Eric Eldred, Thomas Berger, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team 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 ...
Jul 24, 2017 · The Enormous Room by E. E. Cummings. Publication date 1922 Topics cummings, world war I, enormous room, prison, prison life, Gottverdummers Collection
Jun 30, 2020 · Optimized for the MobiPocket Reader, this is a very special edition of e.e. cummings' "The Enormous Room." If you click on one of the words in the text, a convenient pop-up window appears with an English thesaurus for that word, which comes from Webster's Online Dictionary (www.websters-online-dictionary.org).
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The Enormous Room is Cummings’s autobiographical narrative of the time he spent in La Ferté Mace, a French concentration camp a hundred miles west of Paris. Cummings and a friend, both members ...
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 his poems, a stinging denunciation of the stupidity of military authority, and a precursor to later books like ...
