In print continuously since 1922, <em>The Enormous Room</em> is one of the classic American literary works to emerge from World War I, in a grouping that includes John Dos Passo's <em>Three Soldiers</em> and Hemingway's <em>A Farewell to Arms</em>. Drawing on his experiences in France as a volunteer ambulance driver, Cummings takes us through a series of mistakes that led to his being arrested for treason and sent to prison. Out of this episode Cummings produced a unique work—a story of oppression, injustice, and imprisonment presented in a high-spirited manner as if it were a lark, a work of new linguistic energy that celebrates the individual and opposes all structures that stifle him. <br /><br />This edition restores to the work much material that was deleted from the manuscript for the book's 1922 publication and is illustrated with drawings Cummings made while imprisoned in France.