An autobiography of faith, by Thomas Merton
The Seven Storey Mountain is one of the most famous books ever written about a man's search for faith and peace. While still in his early twenties, Merton, an intensely passionate and brilliant man, found that nothing in his worldly life assuaged a growing restlessness. His curiosity about spiritual matters led him first to baptism as a Catholic and ultimately to entry into a Trappist monastery - "the four walls of my new freedom." There he wrote his extraordinary testament, a unique spiritual autobiography of a man who withdrew from the world only after he had fully immersed himself in it. Since its original publication, The Seven Storey Mountain has been
