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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


      Cummings served as an ambulance driver during the war. In late August 1917, his friend and colleague William Slater Brown (known in the book only as B.) was arrested by French authorities as a result of anti-war sentiments B. had expressed in some letters. When questioned, Cummings stood by his friend and was also arrested.
      While Cummings was in captivity at La Ferté-Macé, his father received an erroneous letter to the effect that his son had been lost at sea. The cable was later rescinded, but the subsequent lack of information on his son's whereabouts left the elder Cummings distraught.
      Meanwhile, Cummings and B. had the bad luck to be transported to La Ferté only five days after the local commissioners in charge of reviewing cases for trial and pardon had left, and the commissioners were not expected back until November. When they finally did arrive, they agreed to allow Cummings, as an official "suspect", a supervised release in the remote commune of Oloron-Sainte-Marie. B. was ordered to be transferred to a prison in Précigné. Before Cummings was to depart, he was unconditionally released from La Ferté due to U.S. diplomatic intervention. He arrived in New York City on January 1, 1918.


      Novel


      Cummings thus spent over four months in the prison. He met a number of interesting characters and had many picaresque adventures, which he compiled into The Enormous Room. The book is written as a mix between Cummings's well-known unconventional grammar and diction and the witty voice of a young Harvard-educated intellectual in an absurd situation.
      The title of the book refers to the large room where Cummings slept beside thirty or so other prisoners. However, it also serves as an allegory for Cummings's mind and his memories of the prison, such that when he describes the many residents of his shared cell, they still live in the "enormous room" of his mind.


      Reception


      F. Scott Fitzgerald extended praise to the book, saying: "Of all the work by young men who have sprung up since 1920 one book survives—The Enormous Room by e e cummings ... Those few who cause books to live have not been able to endure the thought of its mortality."


      Sources


      Bloom, Harold, Twentieth-century American Literature, New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1985–1988. ISBN 978-0-87754-802-7.


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      External links



      The Enormous Room at Standard Ebooks
      The Enormous Room text on Project Gutenberg
      The Enormous Room public domain audiobook at LibriVox

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    The Enormous Room - Wikipedia

    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.

    The Enormous Room by E.E. Cummings - Goodreads

    The Enormous Room, the fictionalised account of Cummings's arrest and incarceration by the French on charges of sedition during WWI, reads like a Billy Bunter story. The protagonist is obnoxious and endearing in about equal measure.

    The Enormous Room by E. E. Cummings | Project Gutenberg

    Jul 1, 2005 · "The Enormous Room" by E. E. Cummings is a novel written during the early 20th century, specifically amidst the backdrop of World War I. The narrative follows the experiences of a young American, Edward Estlin Cummings, as he navigates the challenges and absurdities faced while volunteering as an ambulance driver in France.

    The Enormous Room Summary - eNotes.com

    Complete summary of e. e. cummings' The Enormous Room. eNotes plot summaries cover all the significant action of The Enormous Room.

    The Enormous Room - Project Gutenberg

    Jul 11, 2003 · But I did not close my eyes: for all about me there rose a sea of most extraordinary sound… the hitherto empty and minute room became suddenly enormous: weird cries, oaths, laughter, pulling it sideways and backward, extending it to inconceivable depth and width, telescoping it to frightful nearness.

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    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 folkscanomy_biography; folkscanomy; additional_collections Language English Item Size 155.9M

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    Mar 28, 2015 · The Enormous Room is a 1922 autobiographical novel by the poet and novelist E. E. Cummings about his temporary imprisonment in France during World War I. Cummings served as an ambulance driver during the war.

    The Enormous Room (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin)

    May 1, 1999 · 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.

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    May 1, 2007 · This copy of The Enormous Room has been "copy edited" by some fool who seemed to think their "corrections" were going to add to the enjoyment of reading this book. Why bother scanning a crummy copy of a book? The corrections are distracting and irritating and turn it into a chore to read.

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    Nov 2, 2024 · This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published before January 1, 1930. The longest-living author of this work died in 1962, so this work is in …