01684cam a2200349 i 4500 1195665197 TxAuBib 20240403120000.0 991005s1999||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780156010863 pbk. $16.00 0156010860 pbk. $16.00 9780151004133 0151004137 (OCoLC)42568375 TxAuBib rda Merton, Thomas, 1915-1968. The Seven Storey Mountain / Thomas Merton. Fiftieth anniversary edition, first Harvest edition. Orlando, Fla. : Harcourt, 1999. xxiii, 467 pages ; 21 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Originally published: New York : Harcourt, Brace,1948. "An autobiography of faith"--Cover. Includes index. "A Harvest book.". 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. 20240403. Merton, Thomas, 1915-1968. Trappists United States Biography.