num_pages: 224
description: The journal kept by Merton during 1964 and 1965, containing his daily meditations during the crucial and difficult period in which the permission he had awaited so long -- to live alone in his hermitage -- was finally given. These pages reveal his reflections as a hermit on the joys and dangers of a life of solitude in the woods.
language: English
title: A Vow of Conversation: Journals, 1964-1965
titlecomplete: A Vow of Conversation: Journals, 1964-1965
ratings_count: 27
publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux