The Seven Storey Mountain

This unique spiritual autobiography is the account of the growing restlessness of a brilliant and passionate young man whose search for peace and faith eventually leads him at the age of twenty-six to take vows in one of the most demanding religious orders - the Trappists. At the monastery and within the four walls of my new freedom Merton wrote this extraordinary testament - a document of a man who withdrew from the world only after he had fully immersed himself in it. For this Fiftieth Anniversary Edition Robert Giroux has written a memoir of how he came to publish The Seven Storey Mountain and Merton's distinguished biographer William H. Shannon has supplied a note for the reader.