The Enormous Room |
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Author:
| cummings, e. e. |
Introduction by:
| Murphy, Bruce F. |
Series title: | Barnes and Noble Digital Library |
ISBN: | 978-1-4114-6790-3 |
Publication Date: | Mar 2012 |
Publisher: | Barnes & Noble, Incorporated
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Book Format: | Ebook |
List Price: | USD $3.99 |
Book Description:
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This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading. In the autumn of 1917, zealous French police arrested two American ambulance corpsmen on suspicion of spying. One of the men was Edward Estlin Cummings, a young Harvard graduate and aspiring poet. The two were spent three months in the squalid detention center of La Ferté-Macé in Normandy. Cummings' fellow prisoners--the Machine-Fixer, the Zulu, the Young...
More Description This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading.
In the autumn of 1917, zealous French police arrested two American ambulance corpsmen on suspicion of spying. One of the men was Edward Estlin Cummings, a young Harvard graduate and aspiring poet. The two were spent three months in the squalid detention center of La Ferté-Macé in Normandy. Cummings' fellow prisoners--the Machine-Fixer, the Zulu, the Young Skipper's Mate, the Wanderer, the Lobster--presented a human pageant reminiscent of Chaucer.