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:

monks monastery religious life faith politics habit trappist cistercian