The Enormous Room a typescript edition with drawings by the author

Cummings, E.E.; Firmage, George James (ed)

ISBN 10: 0246110465 / ISBN 13: 9780246110466

Published by Hart-Davis, MacGibbon/Granada, London, 1978

About this Item

Authoritative edition of The Enormous Room, based on three corrected copies of the complete manuscript as well as Cummings' original notes and drafts, and also reproducing, for the first time, the author's own on-the-spot drawings; edited and with an afterword by George James Firmage, foreword by Richard S. Kennedy; being a volume in The Cummings Typescript Editions; illustrated endpapers, b&w illustrations throughout; brown cloth boards blindstamped with colonnade motif to front, gilt titling to spine; light foxing to endpapers, minor stains to text block, o.w. Very Good throughout; dustwrapper lightly rubbed, and with tanning to rear panel, o.w. Very Good. Dustwrapper. 275pp. 8vo. Very Good in Very Good dustwrapper Very Good in Very Good dustwrapper.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Enormous Room a typescript edition with drawings by the author
• Publisher: Hart-Davis, MacGibbon/Granada, London
• Publication Date: 1978
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0246110465
• ISBN 13: 9780246110466
• Binding: hardbound
• Illustrator: b&w drawings
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literature

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Synopsis

Excerpt from The Enormous Room EnormousAfter such painful and baffling experiences, I turn to you, burdened though I know you to be, in this world crisis, with the weightiest task ever laid upon any man.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

About the Author

Edward Estlin Cummings was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1894, the son of a Unitarian minister. Educated at Harvard, in 1917 he moved to Greenwich Village in New York City and began to write poetry and paint. In June of that year he went to France as a Red Cross volunteer with the ambulance corps and was soon arrested and imprisoned, though not charged with a crime, in a French concentration camp. That experience inspired his autobiographical novel, The Enormous Room, which was published in 1922. The next year Tulips and Chimneys, the first of his many volumes of poetry, appeared. It is for his typographically creative poetry that he is best known, but Cummings also painted and wrote expressionist verse drama and prose. Until the 1930s, he preferred the lowercase e.e. cummings. He lived in Paris for a few years after World War I, then returned to New York. He died in 1962 in North Conway, New Hampshire.
Samuel Hynes is Woodrow Wilson Professor of Literature Emeritus at Princeton University and the author of several major works of literary criticism, including The Auden Generation, Edwardian Occasions, and The Edwardian Turn of Mind. Hynes's wartime experiences as a Marine Corps pilot were the basis for his highly praised memoir, Flights of Passage. The Soldiers' Tale, his book about soldiers' narratives of the two world wars and Vietnam, won a Robert F. Kennedy Award. He is also a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.