Catholic Religious Orders - Christian Biography, U.S. Poets - Literary Biography, Religious Orders - Cistercians
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Overview
Within a year of its publication in 1948, The Seven Storey Mountain had sold hundreds of thousands of copies and had become a classic for Catholics and non-Catholics alike. This unique spiritual autobiography is the account of the growing restlessness of a brilliant and passionate young man whose search for peace and faith eventually led him, at the age of twenty-six, to take vow in one of the most demanding religious orders, the Trappists.At the monastery, within the "four walls of my new freedom," Merton wrote his extraordinary testament-the document of a man who withdrew from the world only after he had fully immersed himself in it/
The autobiography of a young man who led a worldly life and then at the age of 26, entered a Trappist monastery.
Book Details
Published
December 1, 1990
Publisher
Harcourt
Pages
473
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780151813544