- Biography, Merton, Thomas, 1915-1968, Trappists, United States
The Seven Storey Mountain tells of the growing restlessness of a brilliant and passionate young man, who at the age of twenty-six, takes vows in one of the most demanding Catholic orders—the Trappist monks.
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Earnest, grave, contemplative and classical in form.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- contemplativerelentless
- classical in formformally daring
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Thomas Merton
- First published
- 1956
- Pages
- 435
- Publisher
- Editorial Sudamericana, SPCK, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
- Editions
- 39
- Language
- German, English, Korean, dan
- ISBN
- 9783545700062
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“ON THE LAST DAY OF JANUARY 1915, UNDER THE SIGN OF the Water Bearer, in a year of great war, and down in the shadow of some French mountains on the borders of Spain, I came into the world.”
Thomas Merton (January 31, 1915 – December 10, 1968) was a 20th century American Catholic writer. A Trappist monk of the Abbey of Gethsemani, Kentucky, he was a poet, social activist and student of comparative religion. In 1949, he was ordained to the priesthood and given the name Father Louis. Merton wrote more than 70 books, mostly on spirituality, social justice and a quiet pacifism, as well as scores of essays and reviews, including his best-selling autobiography, The Seven Storey Mountain (1948), which sent scores of disillusioned World War II veterans, students, and even teen-agers flocking to monasteries across US, and was also featured in National Review's list of the 100 best non-fi
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