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Does Merton Still Matter? Some Thoughts on the 75th Anniversary of “The Seven Storey Mountain”

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Carl McColman
Oct 08, 2023
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On October 11, 1948, Harcourt Brace Publishers released a book called The Seven Storey Mountain. So this coming Wednesday marks that book’s seventy-fifth anniversary.

Chances are, most people who read this blog are quite familiar with Merton and probably with The Seven Storey Mountain as well. But in case you aren’t: this book is the memoir of a young ma…

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