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The Enormous Room »

Authors: E. E. Cummings
ISBN-13: 9781406849745, ISBN-10: 140684974X
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Echo Library
Date Published: March 2008
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: E. Cummings

Book Synopsis

At any rate I passed a few remarks calculated to wither the by this time a little nervous Übermensch; got up, put on some enormous sabots (which I had purchased from a horrid little boy whom the French Government had arrested with his parent, for some cause unknown--which horrid little boy told me that he had 'found' the sabots 'in a train' on the way to La Ferté) shook myself into my fur coat, and banged as noisemakingly as I knew how over to One-Eyed Dahveed's paillasse, where Mexique joined us. 'It is useless to sleep,' said One-Eyed Dah-veed in French and Spanish. 'True,' I agreed, 'therefore let's make all the noise we can.'

	Introduction
	Suggestions for Further Reading
	A Note on the Text
I	I Begin a Pilgrimage	3
II	En Route	18
III	A Pilgrim's Progress	29
IV	Le Nouveau	47
V	A Group of Portraits	86
VI	Apollyon	112
VII	An Approach to the Delectable Mountains	134
VIII	The Wanderer	164
IX	Zoo-Loo	175
X	Surplice	192
XI	Jean Le Negre	204
XII	Three Wise Men	223
XIII	I Say Good-bye to La Misere	238
	Glossary	253
	App: Introduction	273