Title: The Seven Storey Mountain
First published: 1956
Description: 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. At the Abbey of Gethsemani, "the four walls of my new freedom," Thomas Merton struggles to withdraw from the world, but only after he has fully immersed himself in it. At the abbey, he wrote this extraordinary testament, a unique spiritual autobiography that has been recognized as one of the most influential religious works of our time. Translated into more than twenty languages, it has touched millions of lives.
Subjects: Biography, Merton, Thomas, 1915-1968, Trappists, United States, Catholic Church, History, Trappists in the United States, Autobiografías, Spiritual biography, Spiritual life, Merton, Thomas, O.C.S.O., 1915-, Biographie catholique, Convertis au catholicisme, Monks, Antiquities, Excavations (Archaeology)
Places: United States, London, Olean, New York, Kentucky, Scotland, Italy, France, England
People: Thomas Merton (1915-1968)
Time periods: 1918-1948
LC classification: BX'4705'M542'A3'F5