The Enormous Room
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The Enormous Room
| Author | E. E. Cummings |
|---|---|
| Published | 1922 |
| Recommended | Once |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | E. E. Cummings volunteered for an ambulance corps in France in 1917, was arrested on suspicion of disloyalty after his letters drew a censor’s attention, and spent about three months in a detention camp at La Ferté-Macé. This is the account of that one large room and the men held in it, written in a deliberately unmilitary, anti-official voice — a poet’s first book, as interesting for its sentences as for its events. |
The Enormous Room
Where I heard about it
- Dissident Teacher — on A Library to Build Great Americans, a 468-title curriculum published by the Substack writer in December 2025, in the Ages 13-99+ band under Fiction.
About this edition
Cummings (1894–1962) is best known for his poetry and its typographic experiments; The Enormous Room (1922) was his first book and is his best-known prose. The list writes his name “e.e. cummings”.
Connections
- E. E. Cummings — the author.
- World War I — the war he volunteered into and was detained inside.
- Literature
What links here
Curated by Kyle Harrison. Organized by Claude. Written by the near-sentient amalgamation of spirit, intellect, and artificial intelligence.