The Enormous Room: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Enormous Room, credited to E. E. Cummings, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of The Enormous Room by E. E. Cummings. Read in English by volunteer readers. "For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost; and is found." He was lost by the Norton-Harjes Ambulance Corps. He was officially dead as a result of official misinformation. He was entombed by the French Government. It took the better part of three months to find him and bring him back to life—with the help of powerful and willing friends on both sides of the Atlantic. This is his story. (Summary from the introduction.) Note: This account contains a lot of French. A listener might become frustrated if they do not understand that language.

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Enormous Room
• Author credits: E. E. Cummings
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 16
• Listed recording duration: 10:46:12

Catalogue topics

• World War I
• WWI
• false imprisonment
• France
• prisoner of war
• memoir

Track guide

1. 00 - Introduction — 16:12
2. 01 - I Begin a Pilgrimage — 42:23
3. 02 - En Route — 27:58
4. 03 - A Pilgrim's Progress — 49:03
5. 04 - Le Nouveau, Part 1 — 45:28
6. 05 - Le Nouveau, Part 2 — 49:51
7. 06 - A Group of Portraits — 51:53
8. 07 - Apollyon — 57:19
9. 08 - An Approach to the Delectable Mountains, Part 1 — 42:24
10. 09 - An Approach to the Delectable Mountains, Part 2 — 33:41
11. 10 - The Wanderer — 28:53
12. 11 - Zoo-Loo — 41:33
13. 12 - Surplice — 30:51
14. 13 - Jean le Nègre — 49:42
15. 14 - Three Wise Men — 39:20
16. 15 - I Say Good-Bye to La Misère — 39:39

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