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First lines: "In 1998 the Barbican Art Gallery in London hosted a series of"... Citation: Fairacres Chronicle 44.2 (2011): 63-66.

First lines: "Paul Pearson is director and archivist of the"... Citation: Theology Digest. 51.1 (Spring 2004): 77.

First lines: "The Trappist monk Thomas Merton had a wide-ranging curiosity"... Citation: Shambhala Sun 12.4 (March 2004): 85.

First lines: "The first impulse of the reader of Seeking Paradise: The Sprit of the Shakers might be to dismiss it as a coffee"... Citation: Catholic Books Review [online]. [accessed 17 Dec. 2003].

First lines: "The opening words, "This book is a celebration of Merton's love of the Shakers," begin the preface"... Citation: Merton Annual 17: 343-345.

First lines: "Those who are familiar with Shaker furniture and craftsmanship and"... Citation: Cistercian Studies Quarterly 39.3 (2004): 355-356.

First lines: "Thomas Merton holds an unparalled"... Citation: Spirit and Life Magazine (September-October 2013): 16.

First lines: "One of the great delights of reading Thomas Merton is the sheer quantity"... Citation: Modern Believing 55.2 (2014): 207-209.

First lines: "Thomas Merton's Selected Essays is a carefully selected collection of the essays of"... Citation: Theology 118.4 (July-August 2015): 315-316.

First lines: "Harcourt, Brace will publish The Seven Storey Mountain, an unusual autobiography by Thomas Merton"... Citation: Press Cleveland, OH (29 June 1948).

First lines: "'The Seven Storey Mountain' by Thomas Merton (Brother M. Louis) is the autobiography of a young man,"... Citation: News Newark NJ (1 February 1948).

First lines: "Rather in the style of St. Augustine's confessions is Seven Story Mountain by Thomas Merton, a young"... Citation: Herald Syracuse NY (14 November 1948).

First lines: "A book describing one man's transition from lack of faith to a condition of religious peace is"... Citation: Vindicator Youngstown O (19 December 1948).

First lines: "The new non-fiction books at the public library include: "The Seven Storey Mountain" by Thomas"... Citation: Tribune LaCrosse Wisc (13 January 1949).

First lines: "Thomas Merton's The Seven Story Mountain (Harcourt $3.00) continues to astound the booksellers and"... Citation: Commonweal (25 February 1949).

First lines: "A manuscript of Thomas Merton's "The Seven Storey Mountain," the Trappist monk's autobiography which"... Citation: Journal Milwaukee (March 1949).

First lines: "A highly interesting account of mental and spiritual development from youth to manhood is furnished"... Citation: Think New York City (May 1949).

First lines: "I asked about the new items on the Harcourt Brace list, and it appears that Thomas Merton is writing"... Citation: Times Herald Dallas, TX (1 May 1949).

First lines: "As a companion volume to "the Seven Storey Mountain," by Thomas Merton, Harcourt, Brace will release"... Citation: Enterprise Riverside CA (22 August 1949).

First lines: "The young American poet here details the story of his life from his birth in 1915 to the present day"... Citation: Catholic Library World 20 (January 1949): 134.

First lines: "In this time and culture few persons are born to the ways of asceticism and Christian mysticism." Citation: Carroll Quarterly 2 (Fall-Winter 1948): 40-42.

First lines: "Thomas Merton is not all that well known in England, at least to judge from the story with which"... Citation: Merton Annual 3: 310-311.

First lines: "Thomas Merton, American author of the best-selling book, "The Seven Storey Mountain," has now had"... Citation: Edmonton Journal Alta. Canada (28 March 1953).

First lines: "For a variety of reasons many persons will be drawn to the reading of this book. Some will wish to"... Citation: Catholic World 176 (March 1953): 474-475.

First lines: "The Sign of Jonas contains Thomas Merton's Trappist journal from December, 1946, to July, 1952,"... Citation: Thought 29 (June 1954): 314-315.

First lines: "Thomas Merton is certainly the only Catholic writer on the"... Citation: Life of the Spirit 8.89 (November 1953): 236-238.

First lines: "This is a sequel to Elected Silence. It is the diary"... Citation: The Furrow, 4.10 (Oct. 1953): 608-609.

First lines: "Thomas Merton's The Silent Life"... Citation: Vermont Catholic Tribune (January 25, 1957).

First lines: "Something on everyman's shelf of books"... Citation: Jubilee (March 1959).

First lines: "The early twentieth century saw a flowering of Cistercian writing. Dom"... Citation: The Merton Annual 31 (2018): 213-215.

First lines: "This exchange of letters between Merton, the well-known American Trappist, and Leclercq, a French Benedictine"... Citation: Publishers Weekly 249.26 (1 July 2002): 72-73.

First lines: "Early on in his monastic life Thomas Merton began to research early monasticism." Citation: Monos 16.4 (July-August 2003): 11.

First lines: "This is the seventeenth and most recent offering in Cistercian Publications' exceptional"... Citation: Spiritus 9.2 (Fall 2009): 251-253.

First lines: "Besides being the title of this book, "Survival or Prophecy?" is the monastic question of our day." Citation: American Benedictine Review 55.3 (September 2004): 341-343.

First lines: "The lyrics in these several books--whose authors have all contributed to The Catholic World"... Citation: Catholic World 170 (February 1950): 397-398.

First lines: "Thomas Merton's work is also, in large part, religious"... Citation: Journal of Religion, 26.1 (Jan. 1946): 75.

First lines: "This is a selection of Thomas Merton's most important"... Citation: Cistercian Studies 7.2 (1972). Bulletin of Monastic Spirituality # 290. [152].

First lines: "The full force of the Merton message will be felt for the first time by most readers in this"... Citation: Commonweal 77 (22 February 1963): 575.

First lines: "In 1962 McDonnell edited an early Thomas"... Citation: Cistercian Studies 9.4 (1974). Bulletin of Monastic Spirituality # 213. [126].

First lines: "This may be the book bargain of the year: two books in one modestly priced volume." Citation: Merton Annual 6: 203-205 [online].

First lines: "Far more than most writers, monastic or otherwise, Thomas Merton was quite literally"... Citation: Cistercian Studies Quarterly 45.1 (2010): 109-110.

First lines: "Readers who are familiar with Merton scholarship will remember that Walter Capps wrote one"... Citation: Merton Annual 3: 298-300.

First lines: "Fr. Thomas Merton tells us that these notes were written in 1953-4, and concern the contemplative"... Citation: Month [London] 21 (March 1959): 194-195.

First lines: "Each new book by Thomas Merton"... Citation: Catholic Worker XXIV.11 (June 1958): 1, 7.

First lines: "The selections in this little book are divided into four"... Citation: Cistercian Studies 7.2 (1972). Bulletin of Monastic Spirituality # 286. [148-149].

First lines: "In this fourth tome of Merton's seven volume saga, we observe a gifted but sometimes adolescent"... Citation: Merton Annual 10: 334-338 [online].

First lines: "Thomas Merton was a devotedly secular writer and intellectual who became a Catholic and then a"... Citation: Publishers Weekly 233.23 (10 June 1988): 62.

First lines: "'It seems to me the most mature writing you have done,' so Naomi Burton Stone, the editor of this"... Citation: Priests and People 4.4 (April 1990): 161.

First lines: "Thomas Merton, whose "Seven Storey Mountain" still makes the best-seller lists, has a companion"... Citation: Chronicle San Francisco CA (20 August 1949).

First lines: "Critical interest in Thomas Merton has grown steadily since his death in 1968. Best known for his"... Citation: Christian Century 98 (2 December 1981): 1266-1277. Robert Kaftan.

First lines: "This is a title frequently given to St. Bernard of Clairvaux, who,"... Citation: Life of the Spirit 9.105 (March 1955): 436.

First lines: "Since his death in 1968, the"... Citation: Catholic Library World 86.3 (March 2016): 190.

First lines: "The books and journals of Thomas Merton are wonderful, but his letters, particularly"... Citation: The Catholic Historical Review 102.3 (Summer 2016): 645-646.

First lines: "It is one of the great ironies"... Citation: Catholic Library World 86.1 (September 2015): 59-60.

First lines: "“A man knows when he has found his vocation when he stops thinking about"... Citation: Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies, 84.4 (Autumn 2017): 540-543.

First lines: "In this volume of letters between Thomas Merton and Victor and Carolyn"... Citation: The Merton Journal 22.2 (Advent 2015): 27-29.

First lines: "There has been a decade of best sellers since Seven Storey Mountain held first place. Whatever else"... Citation: Ave Maria 97 (30 March 1963): 28.

First lines: "This book gives us Thomas Merton's conferences on the vows for the"... Citation: Downside Review 130.460 (July 2012): 92-94.

First lines: "Somewhat surprisingly, this work - a collection of weekly conferences given by Thomas Merton to"... Citation: Catholic Books Review [online]. [Accessed August 29 2013].

First lines: "This is the third volume of Thomas Merton’s Novitiate Conferences edited"... Citation: American Benedictine Review 75.3 (September 2024): 351-354.

First lines: "'The Living Bread' by Thomas Merton has been published by Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, Inc. The author"... Citation: Democrat Times Davenport, IA (10 March 1956).

First lines: "The Living Bread by Thomas Merton is concerned with the Eucharist as sacrifice and sacrament. With"... Citation: Herald Syracuse NY (22 April 1956).

First lines: "In an introductory note of this recent book by an author who has greatly enriched our spiritual"... Citation: Catholic World 183.1093/1098 (April/September 1956): 72-73.

First lines: "The most widely known and influential contemplative monk of our time has added to his impressive"... Citation: Thought 32 (Summer 1957): 319-320.

First lines: "One can always be assure of a stimulating"... Citation: Spiritual Book News 22.3 (November 1979): 1.

First lines: "Like other anthologies of Merton's writings from the 1960s (he died in 1968), this is uneven"... Citation: Choice (December 1979): 312.

First lines: "Two books of poetry issued by New Directions are the only books published today. "A Man in the"... Citation: Times (31 August 1948).

First lines: "There are three aspects I recall of the thrice-weekly monastic"... Citation: American Benedictine Review 71.2 (June 2020): 236-239.

First lines: "We are indebted to Patrick O'Connell for his work on Merton's scripts"... Citation: The Merton Journal 27.1 (Eastertide 2020): 13-16.

First lines: "Fons Vitae are providing us with a most wonderful collection of material in the Merton Corpus." Citation: Monos 17.1 (Jan/Feb 2004): 7-8.

First lines: "The most daunting thing about this"... Citation: Merton Journal [UK] 13.2 (Advent 2006): 50-51.

First lines: "Surrounded by the silence of forests, in the peaceful old Trappist-Cistercian"... Citation: Epiphany 1.3 (Spring 1981): 94-99.

First lines: "Sans conteste, ce livre de photographies prises par John Howard Griffin"... Citation: Collectanea Cisterciensia 35.4 (1973).

First lines: "Once again, a new volume of Thomas Merton's poetry"... Citation: Cistercian Studies Quarterly 43.1 (2008): 118-121.

First lines: "Published for the first time, this is Merton's inspiring account of the place of contemplation in the"... Citation: Tablet [London] (25 October 2002): 26.

First lines: "Thomas Merton's honesty, what I call his "compassionate"... Citation: The Living Church (October 19, 2003): 6.

First lines: "The Intimate Merton is a fascinating collection of the private thoughts of one of the 20th"... Citation: New Dimensions Annual Journal (2002): 60.

First lines: "Having found Seven Storey Mountain interesting many years ago, I opened this book with some positive"... Citation: World Faiths Encounter 28 (March 2001): 59.

First lines: "One is likely to be disappointed if, misled somewhat by its title -"... Citation: American Benedictine Review 61.2-4 (2010): 386-89.

First lines: "In these days, when even Catholics are in danger of being infected with"... Citation: Life of the Spirit 7.80 (February 1953): 370-371.

First lines: "All five of these books hearten the Christian of the churches in one way or another. The first two"... Citation: Commonweal 99 (22 February 1974): 515-516. Abigail McCarthy.

First lines: "On Oct. 15, 1968, Thomas Merton, Trappist monk of Gethsemani, whose whole"... Citation: Buffalo Evening News (August 11, 1973).

First lines: "This is the long-awaited Asian Journal of Thomas Merton,"... Citation: Theology Digest (Autumn 1973): 275.

First lines: "The Asian Journal of Thomas Merton is the account"... Citation: Review & Expositor [Louisville]: 269-271.

First lines: "The correspondence between a young newly graduated woman theologian and a trappist monk towards the end"... Citation: Monos 7.4 (Jul/Aug 1995): 7.

First lines: "Thomas Merton came to photography rather late in his relatively"... Citation: Cithara [St. Bonaventure University] 60.2 (May 2021): 57-60.

First lines: "This book has been a joy to read. On opening the book one is greeted by"... Citation: The Merton Journal 28.2 (Advent 2021): 50-52.

First lines: "Through this magnificent Book of Hours, Thomas Merton guides the prayers of an "active contemplative"... Citation: Merton Annual 23 (2010): 297-300.

First lines: "Although Thomas Merton (b. 1915) died in 1968, he continues to shape the minds and hearts"... Citation: Cistercian Studies Quarterly 42.4 (2007): 482-484.

First lines: "Religious books made news throughout 1953 and will undoubtedly continue in heavy demand in 1954." Citation: Louisville Times (29 December 1953).

First lines: "This book makes plain to the multitudes outside the cloister "some of the reasons why"... Citation: Catholic World 179 (July 1954): 320-321.

First lines: "Though directed primarily to monks, this latest book of Thomas Merton will prove"... Citation: America 90 (March 20 1954): 659-660.

First lines: "'Ooh! A book about the Psalms'… Citation: The Furrow, 5.12 (Dec. 1954): 803-804.

First lines: "This is the first volume in the Monastic Wisdom Series, a new venture"... Citation: Mystics Quarterly 33.1-2 (March-June 2007): 64-66.

First lines: "The notes of Merton's novitate conferences on Cassian have long been privately circulating"... Citation: American Benedictine Review 58.3 (September 2007):352-353.

First lines: "Thomas Merton became master of"... Citation: Sobornost 29.2 (2007): 120-122.

First lines: "This is part of the ongoing series of articles on Merton subjects and reviews of Merton books." Citation: Monos 7.1 (Jan-Feb 1995): 5.

First lines: "This charming (and overpriced) slim volume of letters written by Father Thomas Merton and Robert Lax, his"... Citation: NC News Service (December 15, 1978).

First lines: "In an interview Rabert Lax gave to Paul Wilkes for a film on Thomas Merton, Lax remembers"... Citation: Merton Annual 8: 254-257 [online].