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First lines: "Originally published by Harcourt, Brace in 1952, The Sign of Jonas received wide attention as "the"... Citation: St Joseph Magazine (April 1956). Maria Du Buis.

First lines: "America, the land of activism, was startled in 1948 by the appearance of "The Seven Storey Mountain"... Citation: New York Herald Tribune (8 February 1953). Chad Walsh.

First lines: "Merton, Cistercian monk, author of over 40 books of autobiography, poetry, and essays on literature,"... Citation: Theology Today 43.1 (April 1986): 148. Dewey Weiss Kramer.

First lines: "When Thomas Merton's poetry first was printed, it was received in Catholic circles with perhaps"... Citation: Thought 25 (September 1950): 524. Joseph P. Clancy.

First lines: "The Essays in Love and Living, many of which have appeared elsewhere in different form, explore"... Citation: Christian Century (30 January 1980): 115-116. John B. Bell.

First lines: "In an age when totalitarianism has striven, in every way to devaluate and degrade the human person,"... Citation: Globe Sioux City, Iowa (15 May 1958).

First lines: "This is a little book of meditations from the famous Trappist monk who seems able to turn out one"... Citation: Tribute Minneapolis MN (29 June 1958). J.M.

First lines: "this newest volume of Thomas Merton is a slim collection of reflections on the life of the spirit." Citation: Virginia Kirkus Bulletin 26 (15 May 1958): 373.

First lines: "This is another book of contemplation, of, as its author says, "reflections on certain aspects of"... Citation: News Birmingham AL (8 May 1955). M.V.

First lines: "The two religious books here considered differ widely in their approach to the subject, the first"... Citation: Tennessean Nashville, TN (May). Angela Clement.

First lines: "The author of the famous The Seven Storey Mountain has written a collection of spontaneous thoughts"... Citation: News Birmingham Alabama (4 December 1966). Ian Chips.

First lines: "Each of these three books offers rewarding insights. Cumulatively they show the vitality of prayer"... Citation: New York Times [1923-Current file] (15 March 1970): ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2008).

First lines: "'I am going home, to the home where I have never been in this body...' nor in this 'washable suit,'"... Citation: Milwaukee Journal (2 September 1973). Sister Therese Lentfoehr.

First lines: "And all hell is filled with the nothingness of self! With the catapulting to fame of the work of a"... Citation: Integrity 3 (May 1949): 44-45. Laurette V. Kenny.

First lines: "Thomas Merton, the young man who gave up a harried life in new York City for monastery serenity in"... Citation: Cleveland Plain Dealer (23 October 1960). Thomas Barensfield.

First lines: "Anyone attempting something close to a comprehensive exposure to the work of Thomas Merton"... Citation: Catholic New Times [Toronto, ON] 25.3 (11 Febraury 2001): 17.

First lines: "The Trappist monk has produced another book to go beside his "Seeds of Contemplation" and "The Seven"... Citation: World Herald Omaha Nebraska (8 May 1955).

First lines: "Mr. Merton is the Trappist monk who wrote "The Seven Story Mountain." In this volume of essays and"... Citation: World herald Omaha, Neb (20 March 1949).

First lines: "As in the past, our modern way of life is under attack by Mertens, a Trappist monk for some two"... Citation: Courier-Express Buffalo, NY (9 October 1960). Peter Sala.

First lines: "Father Thomas Merton of the Trappist monastery of Our Lady of Gethsemani, Kentucky, has written"... Citation: Tennessean Nashville, TN (13 May 1957). Thomas Barbour.

First lines: "Fr. Thomas Merton, a Trappist monk, first came to the world's attention almost 20 years ago with his"... Citation: News Savannah, GA. (1966). J.W. Crolly.

First lines: "On completing Thomas Merton's "the Seven Storey Mountain"--his odyssey from man of the world to"... Citation: World Herald Omaha NE (9 October 1949).

First lines: "A companion volume to Thomas Merton's famous autobiography, "The Seven Storey Mountain," will be"... Citation: Oklahoman [Oklahoma City] (14 August 1949).

First lines: "Thomas Merton (who has been called the "Talkative Trappist") has written another book. It is called"... Citation: World Herald Omaha Neb (October).

First lines: "A new, small sheaf of devotional poems by the author of the widely popular "The Seven Storey"... Citation: Times Los Angeles (8 January 1950).

First lines: "The phenomenal success of "The Seven Story Mountain," his autobiography, has made this youthful"... Citation: News Newark NJ (10 April 1949). Elizabeth McFadden.

First lines: "Thomas Merton, who should be eminently qualified on the subject, being a Trappist monk, has written"... Citation: Star Ft Worth, TX (25 February 1957). Pat Record.

First lines: "What manner of life does a Trappist monk lead? Is it a life of silence and negativity interspersed"... Citation: Spectator Hamilton, Ont Canada (28 February 1953). J.P.

First lines: "'The True Solitude' (Hallmark) is a small volume containing selected writings of the late Trappist"... Citation: State Journal Lansing MI (13 June 1970).

First lines: "Father Merton, the young writer who became a Trappist monk and a best-selling author in one of the"... Citation: Times Hartford Conn (8 April 1950). J. McA. C.

First lines: "Thomas Merton, who at one time was a barker for a sideshow at the Chicago World's Fair, became in"... Citation: Plain Dealer Cleveland, OH (8 February 1953). Thomas Barensfeld.

First lines: "The Trappist is the greatest enigma, the new hero (with all its false implications of)"... Citation: The News Weekly (January 6, 1957): 2-B.

First lines: "This is the autobiography of the 33-year-old Trappist monk whose poetry has excited a good deal of"... Citation: Journal Providence, RI (28 November 1948). W.T.S.

First lines: "This is the life of Mother Berchmans, a Trappistine who in the short span of thirty-nine years achieved what many"... Citation: Tablet [London] (24 November 1951): 10.

First lines: "God enters every man's heart by a private door. The radiance of this entrance is to the man"... Citation: New York Post (18 September 1949). Frank Kingdon.

First lines: "The Abbey of Gethsemani, when I visited there"... Citation: Knoxville News-Sentinel (February 7, 1993).

First lines: "I have what you have not, I am what you are not. I have taken what you have failed to take and I"... Citation: New York Times (27 March 1949).

First lines: "The author of "The Seven Storey Mountain" and "The Waters of Siloe," who put on the Trappist habit"... Citation: Oklahoman Oklahoma City Oklahoma (16 December 1951). Welford Inge.

First lines: "'There was in Milton a radical tension between his own psychology, his heart, his character as"... Citation: Tablet [London] 236 (1 May 1982): 431-432. John Cumming.

First lines: "'Religious Violence' should be an oxymoron, but ever since Cain slew Abel"... Citation: U.S. Catholic 70.11 (November 2005): 34-36.

First lines: "Merton published so prolifically and with such candor that not even his personal and private"... Citation: Sojourners 14.11 (December 1985): 44-45. E. Glenn Hinson.

First lines: "Thomas Merton's 1966 Conjectures of a Guilt Bystander is often characterized as his 'worldly'"... Citation: Christian Century 114.22 (30 July 1997): 702-703. Donald Grayston.

First lines: "This is the fourth of seven planned volumes of Merton's private journal. Merton, who died in 1968,"... Citation: Publishers Weekly 243.40 (30 September 1996): 75. Henry Carrigan.

First lines: "Turning Toward the World is an itinerarium, the record of a journey lasting three years in the life"... Citation: America 177.16 (12 November 1997): 26. William J. Short.

First lines: "Thomas Merton, after living in ten years what most men live in thirty, entered the Trappist"... Citation: America 80 (16 October 1943): 47-48. Hubert N. Hart.

First lines: "In the Mystery of the Incarnation, which is at the same time an official ecclesiastical mystery, Mr." Citation: Sewanee Review 53 (1945): 457. Denis Devlin.

First lines: "The curious, and hopeful, thing about the Watergate hearings in the Senate"... Citation: Los Angeles Times (22 July 1973).

First lines: "Thomas Merton and Ernesto Cardenal are legendary figures whose paths crossed at Gethsemani,"... Citation: The Merton Seasonal 42.4 (Winter 2017): 33-35.

First lines: "This book was fashioned from a manuscript written before Thomas Merton became a Trappist and"... Citation: Journal Milwaukee, WI (12 April 1959). Louise Cattol.

First lines: "The concern of both these books--the one by a Trappist monk, the other by a professor of English at"... Citation: Renascence 9 (Winter 1956): 85-89. Sister M. Therese.

First lines: "I dissent! It seems certain that Father Merton will receive nothing but praise from reviewers and"... Citation: Chicago Daily News (2 January 1965): 6. Michael Alexander.

First lines: "All publishers make mistakes sometimes. It seems as though the Sheldon Press (whose recent"... Citation: Church Times [London] (26 December 1975): 6. A.M. Allchin.

First lines: "Since the publication some years ago of his widely read "The Seven Storey Mountain," Thomas Merton,"... Citation: Banner Nashville, TN (7 January 1966). Anne Sweeney.

First lines: "Thomas Merton's 10 previous books plus four volumes of verse find not a variant theme but a new"... Citation: Star Ft Worth Texas (13 May 1956). A.T. DeGroot.

First lines: "Now published for the first time, this novel was written in the summer of 1941, shortly before"... Citation: Herald Everett Wash (2 August 1970). Also see 10, 15, 19, 21a, 21b, and 23b.

First lines: "Thomas Merton has always occupied a special place in the American Catholic Church, though for"... Citation: Commentary (April 1965): 90-94. Daniel J. Callahan.

First lines: "The third book of poems by Howard Moss is an extremely accomplished collection. The poems differ in"... Citation: New York Times Book Review (26 May 1957): 28. W.S. Merwin.

First lines: "Some writers are born to be anthologized. Others achive this distinction. Still others are thrust"... Citation: New York Times [1923-Current file] (2 December 1962): ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2008).

First lines: "This book, written by the widely read author of "The Seven Storey Mountain," is remarkable for its"... Citation: Sun Baltimore, MD (15 May 1955). Joseph D'Invilliers, SJ.

First lines: "Seventeen new poems by the now famed Trappist monk, dedicated to Jacques Maritain. Merton again"... Citation: New Yorker (11 March).

First lines: "Thomas Merton's small new book of verse-the verse of one "Planted in the night of contemplation / Se"... Citation: Courant Hartford Conn (27 November 1949). George Brandon Saul.

First lines: "This novel was originally written in 1941, prior to Thomas Merton's entering Gethsemani, the"... Citation: News Sentinel Fort Wayne IN (27 September 1969).

First lines: "The manuscript of Trappist Thomas Merton's only extant pre-monastic prose work was in the hands of"... Citation: Times-Picayune New Orleans, LA (10 august 1969). Susan M. Wells.

First lines: "Was Thomas Merton the last great 'traditional' monk of the Western world? It is essential, I think,"... Citation: Church World [Portland ME] (24 November 1977): 8. Thomas P. McDonnell.

First lines: "This book is a companion volume to the author's famous autobiography, 'The Seven Storey Mountain.'"... Citation: Standard New Bedford MA (2 October 1949).

First lines: "The Trappists, of the order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance, offered a gifted young man the"... Citation: Journal Meriden Conn (27 October 1949).

First lines: "Here is a book of special interest to Catholic readers. Written by the author of Seven Storey"... Citation: Journal Transcript Franklin NH (19 July 1951).

First lines: "Waters of Siloe gives a complete picture of the monk's daily life, it also provides an informal"... Citation: News Milford MA (29 October).

First lines: "A contemporary phenomenon has been the sudden widespread interest in books with a religious theme,"... Citation: News Chicago IL (14 September). Van Allen Bradley.

First lines: "The regular reader of Fr. Merton's books need only be told that No Man is an Island is a sequel"... Citation: Month [London] 15 (March 1956): 172-174.

First lines: "'We have to get used to our total moral isolation. It is going to get worse. We have to regain our"... Citation: Merton Seasonal 22:1 (Spring 1997): 31-32.

First lines: "Here we have a biography of a saint who is little enough known even to Catholics, St. Lutgarde of"... Citation: Virginia Kirkus Bulletin (15 March 1950).

First lines: "St. Lutgarde was a Belgian mystic who lived 700 years ago, in the century of Thomas Aquinas. Born of"... Citation: Globe Boston MA (7 April 1950). L.L.M.

First lines: "The author of "The Seven Storey Mountain," etc., explains the life of St. Lutgarde, 13th century"... Citation: Retail Bookseller (March 1950).

First lines: "This time the famed Trappist author of "Seven Storey Mountain" writes about St. Lutgarde, one of the"... Citation: News Framington MA (15 June 1950).

First lines: "St. Lutgarde, subject of this new book by the author of "The Seven Storey Mountain," was born in"... Citation: Blade Toledo OH (August).

First lines: "A life of St. Lutgarde, thirteenth-century Trappist nun, one of the first recorded cases of"... Citation: Saturday Review (18 February 1950).

First lines: "Biography of St. Lutgarde, a thirteenth century saint and mystic who joined a Trappist order; by a"... Citation: Times-Star Cininnati OH (25 March 1950).

First lines: "The gifted Trappist, Thomas Merton, here gives a sympathetic interpretation of the interior life"... Citation: Standard New Bedford MA (16 April 1950).

First lines: "It is difficult to appraise this new collection of poems by the Trappist poet, Thomas Merton without"... Citation: Courant Hartford CT (22 August 1948) Gustav Davidson.

First lines: "The monastic life is experiencing its most remarkable revival since the middle ages. In "The Silent"... Citation: Tribune Oakland, CA (13 Jan 1957).

First lines: "The best selling non-fiction book is The Greatest Story Ever Told by Fulton Oursler. The next best-"... Citation: Catholic Mirror (June 1949).

First lines: "Spiritual geographers seem to have learned nothing new on the subject in the last three quarters of"... Citation: Michigan Catholic Detroit MI (12 January 1950).

First lines: "At one time the monk was a man of mystery. The relatively few men--women were never permitted--who"... Citation: Michigan Catholic [Detroit, MI] (5 March 1953). Fr. F.X. Canfield.

First lines: "There seventeen poems were written under a monastic rule of great austerity, where "night is our"... Citation: Saturday Review of Literature 33 (11 February 1950). Robert Gorham Davis.

First lines: "Thomas Merton published "The Seven Storey Mountain" in 1948, and the generation coming of age after"... Citation: Boston Sunday Globe (9 July 1995): B11. Edward Mark.

First lines: "Depending upon whether we view history in terms"...

First lines: "Thirty years ago this year, Thomas Merton"... Citation: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (September 27, 1998).

First lines: "I was a green young reporter"... Citation: Courier-Journal [Louisville] (9 August 1998): 5I.

First lines: "One of the most haunting phrases in Thomas Merton's writings is a passage in The Seven Storey"... Citation: U.S. Catholic (April 2000): 22-23, 25.

First lines: "Thomas Merton, monk, writer, and political activist, was among those interesting figures in the"... Citation: America 172.4 (11 February 1995): 26-27. Bonnie B. Thurston.

First lines: "With Witness to Freedom, the ten-year project of the publication of Thomas Merton's correspondence"... Citation: Catholic Historical Review 82.2 (April 1996): 337-338. Clyde F. Crews.

First lines: "In showing that the way to truth is through contemplation, Father Merton presents a brilliant"... Citation: Courier Journal (16 September 1951).

First lines: "To nie moze byc przypadek." Citation: W Drodze 7.395 (2006): 117-121.

First lines: "In "The Living Bread" Thomas Merton writes beautifully of the sacrament of the Eucharist which is"... Citation: Courant Hartford Conn (1 April 1956).

First lines: "Twenty years ago, when he was 24, and before he became a Trappist monk and wrote his famous The"... Citation: Mirror & News (2 February 1959).

First lines: "Harcourt, Brace & Co. announce the publication on Aug 12 of 'The Seven Storey Mountain," by Thomas"... Citation: News Detroit, MI (11 July 1948).

First lines: "More than a surprise, this book is an astonishment. Thomas Merton destroyed three of his unpublished"... Citation: New York Times Book Review (10 July 1969): 39. John Leonard. 2 copies. Also see 13.

First lines: "During the two years preceding his dramatic entrance into the Trappist monastery of Gethsemani in"... Citation: Telegram Worcester, MA (1 February 1959). Frederick L. Rushton.

First lines: "The recent hegira in Western society, especially of the young, to sit at the feet of oriental gurus,"... Citation: Times [London] (18 December 1975): 22. Joseph McCulloch.