![]() ![]() ![]() Mark Van Doren who recognized Merton’s talent as a writer, told his students that a “classic” was a book that continues to be in print. By the end of that year, it had sold 600,000 copies and by 1984 it had sold three million copies and continues to sell copies today. Though the New York Times did not include it in its best seller list because it was a “religious book”, praise for the book was quickly and concretely given by the sales in a low period of the publishing year. Read an article Merton had written, he told himself: “This man is a writer!” The proof sheets were sent to such illustrious writers as Evelyn Waugh, Clare Booth Luce, Graham Greene and Fulton Sheen who found the work laudatory and even superlative in its excellence. ![]()
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