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These whimsical, timeless tales, by one of our most treasured poets, will appeal to any generation.
The four tales in this enchanting, newly illustrated volume, tell of lonely and extraordinary characters finding friendship in unlikely companions. In "The Old Man Who Said Why" a wise fairy's kind nature is taxed when one old man's questions throw the entire heavens into madness. In "The Elephant and the Butterfly" and "The House That Ate Mosquito Pie" shyness is overcome by the compelling love of new friends. "The Little Girl Named I" is a conversation between the author and a small girl, in the manner of A. A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh.
Clever, insightful, and magical, peopled with vivid characters—a house that prefers one bird to any human inhabitants, an elephant paralyzed with delight, a fairy who "always breakfasted on light and silence"here are tales as only Cummings could write them. A delightful and surprising gift for anyone, young or old.
Clever, insightful, and magical, peopled with vivid characters—a house that prefers one bird to any human inhabitants, an elephant paralyzed with delight, a fairy who "always breakfasted on light and silence"here are tales as only Cummings could write them. A delightful and surprising gift for anyone, young or old.
Also By: E. E. Cummings 
E. E. Cummings: Selected Works: A Norton Critical Edition
First Edition, Paperback, 2020
A Miscellany
Revised, Hardback, 2018
Confined to a private edition for decades, this volume sheds further light on E.E. Cummings’s prodigious vision and imagination.
A Miscellany
Revised, E Book, 2018
Confined to a private edition for decades, this volume sheds further light on E.E. Cummings’s prodigious vision and imagination.
E. E. Cummings: Complete Poems, 1904–1962
Hardback, 2016
This edition—newly typeset with an introduction by Stephen Dunn—presents the entirety of E.E. Cummings’s transcendent body of work.
ViVa
E Book, 2015
Fresh and candid, but turns earthy, defiant, and romantic, E. E. Cummings' poems celebrate the uniqueness of each individual, the need to protest the dehumanizing force of organizations, and the...
Also By: George James Firmage
A Miscellany
Revised, Hardback, 2018
Confined to a private edition for decades, this volume sheds further light on E.E. Cummings’s prodigious vision and imagination.A Miscellany
Revised, E Book, 2018
Confined to a private edition for decades, this volume sheds further light on E.E. Cummings’s prodigious vision and imagination.E. E. Cummings: Complete Poems, 1904–1962
Hardback, 2016
This edition—newly typeset with an introduction by Stephen Dunn—presents the entirety of E.E. Cummings’s transcendent body of work.
Etcetera: The Unpublished Poems of E. E. Cummings
E Book, 2015
A new volume in the Liveright series of Cummings reissues, offset from the authoritative Complete Poems 1904-1962.
The Enormous Room
New Edition, E Book, 2014
“Of all the work by young men who have sprung up since 1920 one book survives—The Enormous Room by E. E. Cummings.”—F. Scott Fitzgerald