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The Enormous Room

The Enormous Room

by Cummings, E. E. (Edward Estlin), 1894-1962

BookID: 8446

Language:English

Reading Level:Reading ease score: 69.2 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read.

Copyright Status:Public domain in the USA.

Autobiographical fictionWar storiesFrance -- FictionAmericans -- France -- Fiction

Description

"The Enormous Room" by E. E. Cummings is an autobiographical novel published in 1922 about his imprisonment in France during World War I. After standing by his friend who expressed anti-war sentiments, Cummings was arrested and spent over four months in a prison at La Ferté-Macé. The book chronicles his picaresque adventures and the colorful characters he encountered, written in Cummings's unconventional style mixed with the witty voice of a young Harvard intellectual navigating an absurd situation. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

Class:PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature

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