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The Autobiography of Thomas Merton : Elected Silence
Author(s): Merton, Thomas; Waugh, Evelyn
| Binding: | Hardcover |
| Volume Condition: | Very Good |
| Dust Jacket: | No |
| Dust Jacket Condition: | Very Good |
| Language: | English |
| Publisher Name: | Hollis and Carter |
| Publication Year: | 1954 |
| Book ID: | 002373 |
| Catalogue(s): | Autobiography and Biography ◇ Religion, Theology, Churches and Church History |
With a foreword by Evelyn Waugh. 332pp. Mid-brown cloth boards (strong and clean, a little rounded on corners and spine ends). Previous owner's name on endpapers, scattered faint foxing, else internally neat, clean, bright and tight. In its original, price-clipped dust jacket (a little rubbed at edges, mildly sunned around spine, minor loss at spine base). Jacket fitted with archival-quality mylar wrapper to protect & prolong its life. It is not adhered to the book or to the jacket. Thomas Merton, from a multi-national and cosmopolitan background, showed great promise as a writer, but he became increasing critical of the conventional modernist outlook and took to the famous Trappist monastery in Kentucky in 1942, where he became an ordained priest. He became a symbolic figure, associated with the Cistercian revival in the States. Hard to find volume. A Jacket fitted with archival-quality mylar wrapper to protect & prolong its life. It is not adhered to the book or to the jacket.
Keywords:
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