The Seven Storey Mountain

图书标准信息

• 作者 Thomas Merton 著
• 出版社 Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• 出版时间 2001-02
• 版次 1
• ISBN 9780156010863
• 定价 138.00元
• 装帧 平装
• 开本 32开
• 纸张 胶版纸
• 页数 496页
• 正文语种 英语

【内容简介】

Amodern-dayConfessionsofSaintAugustine,TheSevenStoreyMountainisoneofthemostinfluentialreligiousworksofthetwentiethcentury.ThiseditioncontainsanintroductionbyMerton'seditor,RobertGiroux,andanotetothereaderbybiographerWilliamH.Shannon.Ittellsofthegrowingrestlessnessofabrilliantandpassionateyoungmanwhosesearchforpeaceandfaithleadshim,attheageoftwenty-six,totakevowsinoneofthemostdemandingCatholicorders-theTrappistmonks.AttheAbbeyofGethsemani,"thefourwallsofmynewfreedom,"ThomasMertonstrugglestowithdrawfromtheworld,butonlyafterhehasfullyimmersedhimselfinit.TheSevenStoreyMountainhasbeenafavoriteofreadersrangingfromGrahamGreenetoClaireBoothLuce,EldridgeCleaver,andFrankMcCourt.And,inthehalf-centurysinceitsoriginalpublication,thistimelessspiritualtomehasbeenpublishedinovertwentylanguagesandhastouchedmillionsoflives.Theautobiographyofayoungmanwholedaworldlylifeandthenattheageof26,enteredaTrappistmonastery.

【作者简介】

ThomasMerton(1915-1968)wasborninFranceandcametoliveintheUnitedStatesattheageof24.Hereceivedseveralawardsrecognizinghiscontributiontoreligiousstudyandcontemplation,includingthePaxMedalin1963,andremainedadevotedspiritualistandatirelessadvocateforsocialjusticeuntilhisdeathin1968.TheSignofJonaswasoriginallypublishedin1953.

【目录】

INTRODUCTION

by Robert Giroux

A NOTE TO THE READER

by William H. Shannon

PART ONE

ONEPrisoner's Base

TWO Our Lady of the Museums

rHREE The Harrowing of Hell

FOUR The Children in the Market Place

PART TWO

ONEWith a Great Price

TWO The'Waters of Contradiction

PART THREE

ONe Magnetic North

Two True North

THREE The SleeDing Volcano

VOt R The Sweet Savor of Liberty,

EVIL0G E Meditatio Pauperis in Solitudine

INDEX