The Enormous Room

<p>&quot;Of all the work by young men who have sprung up since 1920 one book survives -- The Enormous Room by E. E. Cummings.&quot; -- F. Scott Fitzgerald</p> The most notable work of fiction from our most beloved modernist poet, The Enormous Room was one of the greatest -- yet still not fully recognized -- American literary works to emerge out of World War I. Drawing on E. E. Cummings's experiences in France as a volunteer ambulance driver, this novel takes us through a series of mishaps that led to the poet's being arrested for treason and imprisoned. Out of this trauma Cummings produced a work like no other -- a story of oppression and injustice told with his characteristic linguistic energy and unflappable exuberance, which celebrates the spirit of the individual and offers a brave and brilliant opposition in the face of the inhumanity of war. <p>Illustrated with drawings Cummings made while imprisoned in France and featuring an illuminating new introduction by Susan Cheever, this reissued edition offers a unique and multifaceted lens onto the inner life of the poet in his youth and demands recognition by a twenty-first-century readership.</p> 56 drawings