The Seven Storey Mountain (Masterplots II: Nonfiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Thomas Merton
- First Published: 1948
- Type of Work: Autobiography
- Time of Work: 1915-1941
- Setting: England, France, Bermuda, New York, and Louisville, Kentucky
- Principal Characters: Merton| Thomas
- Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography
- Subjects: Values, Self-discovery, Memory, Spiritual life or spirituality, Catholics or Catholic Church, Monasteries, monks, or monasticism
Form and Content
The publication in October, 1948, of his autobiographical work The Seven Storey Mountain marked the true beginning of Thomas Merton’s extraordinary literary career. Seven years earlier, Merton had entered the Trappist abbey of Gethsemani in Kentucky. Encouraged by his abbot, Dom Frederic Dunne, Merton wrote his autobiography in order to describe his transformation from a nonpracticing Anglican into a convert to Catholicism who abandoned a promising academic career in order to enter a cloistered monastery. During the last twenty years of his...
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