Thomas Merton, Author, Christine M. Bochen, Editor Farrar Straus Giroux $25 (314p) ISBN 978-0-374-13055-8
Famed Trappist monk Thomas Merton corresponded with an extraordinary range of writers, among them Evelyn Waugh, Henry Miller, Jacques Maritain, Walker Percy and William Carlos Williams. He spoke out boldly against political oppression, social...
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Thomas Merton, Author, Christine M. Bochen, Editor Mariner Books $15.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-15-600004-8
Letters from the famed Trappist to such writers as Evelyn Waugh, Czeslaw Milosz and Boris Pasternak. (Aug.)
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Thomas Merton, Author, Victor A. Kramer, Author HarperCollins Publishers $30 (379p) ISBN 978-0-06-065480-1
This is the fourth of seven planned volumes of Merton's private journal. Merton, who died in 1968, was a Trappist monk, peace activist and well-loved author of spiritual classics such as The Seven Storey Mountain. Neither mundane nor egotistical,...
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Thomas Merton, Author, Robert Faggen, Editor, Czeslaw Milosz, With Farrar Straus Giroux $21 (160p) ISBN 978-0-374-27100-8
This is one of those books that touches your soul and stays with you. It records the exchanges of powerful, unadorned and often even mundane letters over a decade between two friends, Merton, a Trappist monk, and Milosz, the Polish poet and 1988...
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Thomas Merton, Author, Lawrence S. Cunningham, Editor HarperOne $27.5 (406p) ISBN 978-0-06-065478-8
A Cistercian monk and author of the bestselling The Seven Storey Mountain, Merton records in his plain journal voice the struggles of a soul wrestling with both his vocation and his location, the Abbey of Our Lady of Gesthsemani near Bardstown,Ky....
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Thomas Merton, Author, Jane Marie Richardson, Editor, Mary Luke Tobin, Introduction by Farrar Straus Giroux $22 (320p) ISBN 978-0-374-12893-7
In the post-Vatican II years of 1967 and 1968 Thomas Merton, the renowned Trappist monk, invited a group of contemplative nuns from various communities to meet with him at his abbey in the Kentucky hills. ``A many-voiced silence'' is the thread that
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"It is important to remember the deep... seriousness of Advent, when the mendacious celebrations of our marketing culture so easily harmonize with our tendency to regard Christmas, consciously or otherwise, as a return to our own innocence and...
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Thomas Merton, Author, Robert Inchausti, Editor, Robert Inchausti, Selected by Shambhala Publications $14.95 (192p) ISBN 978-1-57062-930-3
Readers looking for a short introduction to Thomas Merton's writings will benefit greatly from Seeds, a collection of brief excerpts from America's most famous 20th-century monk. Merton discusses the usual topics of prayer, silence, contemplation
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Thomas Merton, Author, Patricia A. Morton, Editor, Jim Forest, Foreword by . Orbis $16 (165p) ISBN 978-1-57075-559-0
The story behind this treatise by the legendary Trappist monk from Kentucky's Abbey of Gethsemani is nearly as fascinating as the document itself. As explained in the foreword by Jim Forest, who corresponded with Merton while a member of the...
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Thomas Merton, Author, Robert E. Daggy, Editor Farrar Straus Giroux $27.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-374-25123-9
Thomas Merton successfully lived an apparent paradox: a contemplative monk who wrote books, poems and essays and maintained a lively, voluminous correspondence. This collection of his letters, the second in a projected five-volume series, ranges...
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Thomas Merton, Author, Robert E. Daggy, Editor HarperOne $30 (384p) ISBN 978-0-06-065482-5
This next-to-last volume of the famous Trappist monk's personal journals covers the years before and just after his move to a hermitage on the grounds of the Abbey of Gethsemani, near Louisville, Ken.. Filled with Merton's characteristic humor and...
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Thomas Merton, Author, Patrick Hart, Editor HarperOne $30 (368p) ISBN 978-0-06-065486-3
This final volume of Thomas Merton's journals is filled with enthusiasm and vitality. Merton finally was out from under the thumb of Abbot James Fox, and the new abbot, Flavian Burns, one of Merton's former students, was ready to let Merton do just...
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Thomas Merton, Author, Patrick Hart, Editor Farrar Straus Giroux $27.95 (434p) ISBN 978-0-374-25449-0
Thomas Merton, activist monk, reformed man of the world and author of The Seven Storey Mountain , among other books, was a voluminous correspondent. This collection of his letters, the third in a projected six-volume series, focuses on the nature of
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Thomas Merton, Author, Jonathan Montaldo, Editor . Harper San Francisco $25 (208p) ISBN 978-0-06-065602-7
Like his beautifully crafted letters and journals, Merton's prayers and drawings reveal his multifaceted personality, his hunger for God and his passion for providing others with a glimpse of the path to union with God. Jonathan Montaldo, who...
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Thomas Merton, Author, Jonathan Montaldo, Editor, Patrick Hart, Editor HarperOne $28 (374p) ISBN 978-0-06-251620-6
""A path through the woods"" is the description Hart and Montaldo (Merton's last secretary and a Merton lecturer, respectively) give to this condensation of the diaries faithfully kept by Merton before and throughout his 27 years as a Trappist monk...
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Thomas Merton, Author, William H. Shannon, Editor Farrar Straus Giroux $25 (352p) ISBN 978-0-374-29191-4
Trappist monk, novelist, poet and social critic, Merton (1915-1968) oscillates between engagement and solitude, hope and despair, in these impassioned, searching letters. This fifth and final volume of his correspondence--all of which are edited by...
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Thomas Merton, Author, William H. Shannon, Editor, William H. Shannon, Introduction by ; edited and with intro. by William H. Shannon. Harper San Francisco $22.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-06-057060-6
Any book that arrives in print 35 years after its author's death has an unusual history. Thomas Merton, the prolific monk whose autobiography The Seven Storey Mountain
brought Christian contemplation into the 20th century, forbade his literary...
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Thomas Merton, Author, Paul M. Pearson, Editor Orbis Books $24 (125p) ISBN 978-1-57075-501-9
""The peculiar grace of a Shaker chair is due to the fact that it was made by someone capable of believing that an angel might come and sit on it,"" wrote Thomas Merton in 1964, at the height of his interest in the Shakers and their spiritual arts....
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Thomas Merton, Author, Susan Brownmiller, Author HarperCollins Publishers $22 (228p) ISBN 978-0-06-019049-1
Brownmiller, best known for feminist writings ( Against Our Will; Femininity ), first visited Vietnam in 1992 after travel restrictions for ordinary Americans were lifted. This is not a work of political pilgrimage. The author was instead on a...
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Patrick Hart, Editor, Rembert G. Weakland, Foreword by, Thomas Merton, Author . Farrar, Straus & Giroux $22 (224p) ISBN 978-0-374-27206-7
This exchange of letters between Merton, the well-known American Trappist, and Leclercq, a French Benedictine, offers an intriguing glimpse into the minds of the two monks and their efforts to nudge monastic life toward reform in the 1950s and '6
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