ISBN: 9780824509187 - title: honorable reader reflections on my work (11 resultados)

Hardback. Condición: Good. Thomas Merton (1915-1968) was a Trappist monk of the Abbey of Gethsemani, Kentucky, as well as a bestselling writer, poet, social activist, and student of comparative religion. This posthumously published book is a collection of prefaces that Merton wrote for international editions of his books, which often give insight as he looks back with the advantage of hindsight. Merton suggests that the major message in his books is that the contemplative life applies wherever there is life.…

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Hardback. Condición: Good. Thomas Merton (1915-1968) was a Trappist monk of the Abbey of Gethsemani, Kentucky, as well as a bestselling writer, poet, social activist, and student of comparative religion. This posthumously published book is a collection of prefaces that Merton wrote for international editions of his books, which often give insight as he looks back with the advantage of hindsight. Merton suggests that the major message in his books is that the contemplative life applies wherever there is life.…

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Hardcover. Condición: As New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: as new. First Edition Thus. 8vo, pages, cloth Here are Merton's personal reflections. written from the distance of tme, and for a whole new readership, and furthe thoughts into the author's mind and heart as he reconsidered and felt again the great themes in his books. Principally, these remarks have been gathered from Merton's new prefaces to foreign language editions of his work. Most of this was previously published in 1981 as INTRODUCTIONS EAST & WEST; but this adds 3 newly discovered works, an updated bibliography, and, charmingly, a facsimile of the graph Merton made rating his various books.…

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