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Thomas Merton, The Seven Storey Mountain (1948)

August 14, 2014 By Gretchen Williams '14

The Seven Storey Mountain is Trappist monk Thomas Merton’s 1948 best-selling autobiography. The title refers to Dante’s Purgatory. The book made the National Review’s list of the best 100 non-fiction books of the 20th Century.

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