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A rambunctious modern novel by the twentieth century's most inventive poet. Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1894, Edward Estlin Cummings rebelled against the prevailing values of his Harvard and Unitarianism-- steeped milieu. His relentless search for personal freedom led him to... read more

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WE HAD SUCCEEDED, my friend B. and I, in dispensing with almost three of our six months' engagement as Conducteurs Volantaires, Section Sanitaire Vingt-et-Un, Ambulance Norton Harjes, Croix Rouge Americaine, and at the Moment which subsequent experience served to capitalize had just finished the unlovely job of cleaning and greasing (nettoyer is the proper word) the own private flivver of the chef de section, a gentleman by the convenient name of Mr. A.

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  1. E. E. Cummings (Author)
 

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