Nov 18, 2008

The Seven Storey Mountain | The Seven Storey Mountain

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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

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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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The Seven Storey Mountain | The Seven Storey Mountain

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