The Enormous Room
E. E. Cummings
The Enormous Room, the title of poet E. E. Cummings’ 1922 autobiographical novel of World War I, is both literal and allegorical. Cummings served as an ambulance driver during the war and was arrested along with his colleague William Slater Brown by French authorities suspicious of anti-war sentiments found in some of Brown’s letters. Upon the arrest in late August 1917 he was held at La Ferté-Macé, a French concentration camp, arriving five days after the local commissioners responsible for trials and pardons had left. When they returned in November, they granted Cummings, an official “suspect”, supervised release to the remote commune Oloron-Saint-Marie. In the meantime, the French sent a letter to his father that Cummings had been lost at sea, with no further explanation. The title phrase refers to the large room where Cummings lived with some thirty other prisoners and to the mental repository he created to house his memories of the characters and various adventures from his four-month imprisonment. The book has been described as a “latter day Pilgrim’s Progress” and is considered a classic of the period.
"Of all the work by young men who have sprung up since 1920 one book survives—The Enormous Room by e e cummings... Those few who cause books to live have not been able to endure the thought of its mortality."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Product Details
| Read by: | Multiple readers |
| Length: | 10 hours 42 minutes |
| Type: | Solo reading |
| Media: | MP3 CD |
| Package: | Paper sleeve |
| Item No.: | CD-1304 |
| List Price: | $3.99 |
| Artwork: | Disc contains 300 dpi image files for printing |
| CD label art: | Includes both square JPG and round PNG formats |
| CD jewel case art: | Includes cover, inner insert, and J-card |
| DVD case art: | Includes wrapper for Amaray box and inner insert |
Credits
Production
Book coordinator: TriciaG
Meta Coordinator: TriciaG
Proof listener: TriciaG
Audio Remastering: D. S. Harvey
Artwork
Cover: ‘A batch of German prisoners.' Jan. 1, 1918.
Inset: Vertical aerial view of Leugenboom (Koekelare) in Belgium, June 13, 1917
Inset: E.E. Cummings, World-Telegram photo by Walter Albertin, 1953.
The Recordings
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Table of Contents
| Track | Section | Reader | Length |
| 1 | 00 - Introduction | Nemo | 16:01 |
| 2 | 01 - I Begin a Pilgrimage | Nemo | 42:02 |
| 3 | 02 - En Route | David Eakle | 27:45 |
| 4 | 03 - A Pilgrim's Progress | David Eakle | 48:42 |
| 5 | 04 - Le Nouveau Part 1 | Davida George | 45:10 |
| 6 | 05 - Le Nouveau Part 2 | David Eakle | 49:30 |
| 7 | 06 - A Group of Portraits | Farnood | 51:35 |
| 8 | 07 - Apollyon | Farnood | 56:58 |
| 9 | 08 - An Approach to the Delectable Mountains Part 1 | Jaquerie | 42:06 |
| 10 | 09 - An Approach to the Delectable Mountains Part 2 | Jaquerie | 33:26 |
| 11 | 10 - The Wanderer | David Eakle | 28:45 |
| 12 | 11 - Zoo-Loo | David Eakle | 41:21 |
| 13 | 12 - Surplice | David Eakle | 30:43 |
| 14 | 13 - Jean le N?gre | David Eakle | 49:28 |
| 15 | 14 - Three Wise Men | Jaquerie | 39:09 |
| 16 | 15 - I Say Good-Bye to La Misere | Jaquerie | 39:29 |
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