Thomas Merton, The Seven Storey Mountain (1948)
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.
Sighting Citation:
“Thomas Merton, The Seven Storey Mountain (1948).” Dante Today: Citings and Sightings of Dante’s Works in Contemporary Culture. Elizabeth Coggeshall and Arielle Saiber, eds. August 14, 2014. https://www.dantetoday.org/sightings/thomas-merton-the-seven-storey-mountain-1948/.
Posted August 14, 2014