A Vow of Conversation: Journals, 1964-1965

by Thomas Merton, Naomi Burton Stone (Editor)

Overview

The journal kept by Merton during 1964 and 1965, containing his daily meditations during the crucial and difficult period in which the permission he had awaited so long — to live alone in his hermitage — was finally given. These pages reveal his reflections as a hermit on the joys and dangers of a life of solitude in the woods.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780374526481
Publisher:	Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication date:	12/01/1999
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Thomas Merton, a Trappist monk, is perhaps the foremost spiritual of the twentieth century. His diaries, social commentary, and spiritual writings continue to be widely read thirty years after his untimely death in 1968.

Editorial Reviews

A very personal piece of writing blending 'heavenliness and anguish,' wherein unfolds its special appeal.” —Library Journal

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