A powerful and unconventional work of literary memoir, The Enormous Room by E. E. Cummings recounts the author's experiences during a time of confinement and upheaval, offering a deeply personal reflection on freedom, individuality, and the resilience of the human spirit. Written with Cummings' distinctive stylistic innovation, the narrative blends vivid observation, poetic expression, and fragmented storytelling to capture life within a space defined by restriction yet filled with diverse...

In Great War-era France, E. E. Cummings is lifted, along with his friend B., from his job as an ambulance driver with the Red Cross, and deposited in a jail in La Ferté Macé as a suspected spy. There his life consists of strolls in the cour, la soupe, and his mattress in The Enormous Room, the male prisoners' communal cell. It's these prisoners whom Cummings describes in lurid detail.The Enormous Room is far from a straightforward autobiographical diary. Cummings' descript...

A stunning continuation of classic literary masterpieces from some of history's greatest authors.This anthology gathers fifty unforgettable works filled with adventure, romance, mystery, philosophy, drama, and emotional depth. Each selection showcases the enduring power of storytelling and the brilliance of world literature across different genres and eras.From inspiring journeys and thought-provoking ideas to unforgettable characters and timeless themes, the collection off...

A remarkable collection of timeless literary masterpieces every reader should experience.This carefully selected anthology brings together unforgettable works from some of the world's greatest writers, offering stories filled with adventure, romance, mystery, philosophy, drama, and human emotion. Each masterpiece reflects the enduring brilliance of classic literature and the universal themes that continue to inspire readers across generations.From powerful novels and though...

"No one else has ever made avant-garde, experimental poems so attractive to both the general and the special reader."—Randall JarrellThe one hundred and fifty-six poems here, arranged in twelve sections and introduced by E. E. Cummings's biographer, Richard S. Kennedy, include his most popular poems, spanning his earliest creations, his vivacious linguistic acrobatics, up to his last valedictory sonnets. Also featured are thirteen drawings, oils, and watercolors by...

A Miscellany, confined to a private edition for decades, sheds further light on the prodigious vision and imagination of the most inventive poet of the twentieth century: E.E. Cummings.Formally fractured and yet gleefully alive and whole, E. E. Cummings’s groundbreaking modernist poetry expanded the boundaries of language. In A Miscellany, originally released in a limited run in 1958, Cummings lent his delightfully original voice to “a cluster of ...

The lauded poet E.E. Cummings writes with humor and mischief of his imprisonment in a WWI military detention camp in this autobiographical precursor to Catch-22 and MASH.In 1917, after the entry of America into World War I, E. E. Cummings, a recent graduate of Harvard College, volunteered to serve on an ambulance corps in France. He arrived in Paris with a new friend, William Slater Brown, and they set about living it up in the big city before hea...

XAIPE (Greek for "rejoice"), which first appeared in 1950, contains some of E. E. Cummings's finest work.Among many poems can be found "dying is fine)but Death," "so many selves(so many friends and gods," "when serpents bargain for the right to squirm," "no time ago," "I thank You God for most this amazing," and "now all the fingers of this tree(darling)have."

An eye-opening selection of Cumming's more avant-garde poetry and prose.As a poet, Cummings was a pioneer not only in linguistic and typographic inventions, but also in sound and concrete poetry. But his prose is no less experimental; he wrote memoirs, essays, and fiction that are constantly provocative and often radically experimental. To read the avant-garde Cummings is to read a writer who consistently broke with established norms, "never to rest and never to ha...

A new volume in the Liveright series of Cummings reissues, offset from the authoritative Complete Poems 1904-1962.The poems in Etcetera were discovered in three Cummings manuscript collections and selected from more than 350 unpublished pieces. Many of the poems are from his early years and all convey his freshness and youthful spirit, exhibiting his celebration of love and delight in common natural phenomena. Etcetera was first published...

This 1st volume of "100 Books You Must Read Before You Die" contains the following 50 works, arranged alphabetically by authors' last names: Little Women [Louisa May Alcott] Emma [Jane Austen] Father Goriot par [Honoré de Balzac] The Tenant of Wildfell Hall [Anne Brontë] Wuthering Heights [Emily Brontë] Tarzan of the Apes [Edgar Rice Burroughs] Alice's Adventures in Wonderland [Lewis Carroll] My Ántonia [Willa Cather] Don Quixote [Miguel Cervantes] The Awakening & Other Short Stories [Kate...

According to Wikipedia: "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. 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 als...