The Waters of Siloe.
by Merton, Thomas
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Palm Beach, Florida, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1949. First edition of Merton's companion volume to his famed The Seven Storey Mountain. Octavo, original cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated, frontispiece. Signed by Thomas Merton on the title page. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. A companion volume to Merton's famous autobiography The Seven Storey Mountain, The Waters of Siloe gives a complete and comprehensive picture of the monk's daily existence, from the time he rose at two o'clock in the morning to sing Matins until he retired at seven in the evening. In addition, it provides an informal account of the meaning and purpose of Trappist life, told in terms of those personalities who forged and tempered the spirit of the Order through the ages.
Synopsis
An examination of the roots of the Cistercian Order, founded in 1098, its development and waning, and the seventeenth-century reforms by the Abbé de Rancé, which began the second flowering that continues today. Throughout, Merton illuminates the purposes of monasticism. Index; photographs.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Raptis Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 110762
- Title
- The Waters of Siloe.
- Author
- Merton, Thomas
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Harcourt, Brace and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1949
- Keywords
- The Waters of Siloe First Edition, Thomas Merton First Edition Signed
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