Enormous Room

from ursula

While volunteering as ambulance drivers during WWI, Cummings and a friend of his ran afoul of the French government as suspicious characters. They were suspicious because they spent more time with the French than with their American compatriots, and because Cummings' friend (referred to in the bo...

from abirdman

Cummings' only novel, an autobiographical work about being imprisoned in France during WWI.

from datrappert

Though sometimes called an autobiographical novel, The Enormous Room tells the basically true tale of how Cummings and a friend, serving as ambulance drivers during the First World War, were detained in prison for several months by the French Government as a result of their antiwar views and, in ...

from Kristelh

I completed this work by the young e.e.cummings written at 18 about his time as a prisoner or detainee of the French Government for suspicion during WWI. The author my be better known for his poetry but this is a work of nonfiction/memoir and the prose is delightful. He paints a picture with his ...

from thomnottom

Challenging read due to Cummings' poetic prose and his interspersing of French dialogue. It is also not a very straightforward read, as he jumps from story to story and introduces characters in whatever order seemed to appeal to him. In the end, I did find it rather rewarding - both for the style...