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• The Seven Storey Mountain was first published fifty years ago, on October 4, 1948.
• he had begun to write his autobiography four years earlier, at the Trappist monastery in Kentucky where he had journeyed in December 1941, at age twenty-six,
• had become a monk in order to leave his past life behind.
• the Trappist censors,
• The Mountain appeared at a time of great disillusion: