The enormous room
By: E.E. Cummings ; edited with an introduction and glossary by Samuel Hynes.
Contributors: Hynes, Samuel Lynn.
Series: Penguin twentieth-century classics
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 278
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918 -- France -- Fiction.; Concentration camp inmates -- Fiction.; Concentration camps -- Fiction.; Americans -- France -- Fiction.; Ambulance drivers -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "In 1917 young Edward Estlin Cummings went to France as a volunteer with a Red Cross ambulance unit on the western front. But his free-spirited, insubordinate ways soon got him tagged as a possible enemy of La Patrie, and he was summarily tossed into a French concentration camp at La Ferte-Mace in Normandy."--BOOK JACKET.

"Under the vilest conditions, Cummings found fulfillment of his ever elusive quest for freedom. The Enormous Room, his account of his four-month confinement, reads like a latter-day Pilgrim's Progress, a journey into dispossession, to a place among the most debased and deprived of human creatures. Cummings's hopeful tone reflects the essential paradox of his existence: to lose everything is to become free, and so to be saved."--BOOK JACKET.