Title: A vow of conversation : journals, 1964-1965 /
Authors: Merton, Thomas, 1915-1968; Stone, Naomi Burton.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus, Giroux,
Year: 1988
Subjects: Merton, Thomas, Diaries.; Trappists United States Diaries.; Monks United States Diaries.
Abstract: 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. -- PUBLIHER DESCRIPTION.