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The Enormous Room

work by Cummings

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The Enormous Room is a 1922 book by E.E. Cummings. It recounts his experience being imprisoned in a French detention camp during World War I. The work is a symbolic portrayal of Cummings's growing distrust of officialdom. The book was his first published work.1

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  1. E.E. Cummings
  2. D.H. Lawrence

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