The enormous room
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New York, N.Y. : Penguin Books, 1999.
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0141181249, 9780141181240
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Published
New York, N.Y. : Penguin Books, 1999.
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Book
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xx, 278 pages ; 20 cm.
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English
ISBN
0141181249, 9780141181240

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"E. E. Cummings's antic autobiographical novel about his imprisonment in a French military detention camp during World War I. 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. Under the vilest conditions, Cummings found fulfillment of his ever elusive quest for freedom. The Enormous Room, his lightly fictionalized 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." -- Amazon.com

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Cummings, E. E. 1., & Hynes, S. (1999). The enormous room . Penguin Books.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Cummings, E. E. 1894-1962 and Samuel Hynes. 1999. The Enormous Room. Penguin Books.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Cummings, E. E. 1894-1962 and Samuel Hynes. The Enormous Room Penguin Books, 1999.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Cummings, E. E. 1894-1962., and Samuel Hynes. The Enormous Room Penguin Books, 1999.

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