Thomas Merton and James Laughlin: Selected Letters
- ISBN-10
- 0393040690
- ISBN-13
- 9780393040692
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 398
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1997
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Authors
- Thomas Merton, James Laughlin
Description
The thirty-year correspondence between the religious writer and his faithful publisher traces the widening of Merton's focus from the internal to the social and global, and the development of his consciousness of himself as a public writer.
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