The Courage for Truth: The Letters of Thomas Merton to Writers [Paperback ed.] 0156000040, 9780156000048

In this fourth volume of correspondence, readers discover "the literary Merton," who had a passion for writing

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The Courage for Truth: The Letters of Thomas Merton to Writers [Paperback ed.]
0156000040, 9780156000048

From the time they first met as undergraduates at Columbia College in New York City in the mid-1930s, the noted editor R

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In 1969, one year after Thomas Merton's tragic (and suspicious) death, John Howard Griffin was invited to write a b

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Opening with Merton's twenty-nine-year correspondence with the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mark Van Doren, this boo

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Discusses Blake, Joyce, Pasternak, Faulkner, Styron, O'Connor, Camus, symbolism, creativity, alienation, comtemplat

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Thomas Merton spent two weeks in Alaska in 1968 just prior to his fateful trip to the East. He had no thought of publica

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Seldom can one predict that a book will have an effect on history, but this is such a work. Merton's many biographe

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Having embraced a life of solitude in his own hermitage, Thomas Merton finds his faith tested beyond his imagination whe

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Thomas Hood, 1799-1845, is one of the most notable minor authors of the late Romantic and early Victorian period. This i

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The story of Michel Thomas reads like a thriller in which adventure and heartbreak combine to produce a unique form of w

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Provides an in-depth look at the life of Thomas Day from childhood and education through writing accomplishments and the

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