num_pages: 429
description: One of the most famous books ever written on a man's search for faith and peace, The Seven Storey Mountain was hailed on publication as "a twentieth-century for of the Confessions of St Augustine" (Bishop Fulton J. Sheen). When he was still in his early twenties, Merton, an intensely active and brilliant young man, found that nothing in his worldly life assuaged a growing restlessness. A curiosity about spiritual matters, fueled by the writings of Etienne Gilson and the poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins and William Blake, led him first to baptism as a Catholic and ultimately to entry into a Trappist monastery -- "the four walls of my new freedom." Here he wrote his extraordinary testament -- the unique spiritual document of a man who withdrew from the world only after he had fully immersed himself in it.
language: English
title: The Seven Storey Mountain
titlecomplete: The Seven Storey Mountain
genres: Faith, Religion, Biography, Catholic, Spirituality, Memoir, Nonfiction, Theology, Christian, Christianity
ratings_count: 19121
places: Bardstown, Kentucky
publisher: Harcourt brace Jovanovich, Inc