File# | Title | First Line | Rev.Author | Citation | Year |
01 | The Seven Storey Mountain by Thomas Merton | If you have not yet read this extraordinary and inspiring book that has brought peace and | |
dust jacket (?)
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02a | | Harcourt, Brace will publish The Seven Storey Mountain, an unusual autobiography by Thomas Merton | |
Press Cleveland, OH (29 June 1948).
| 1948 |
02b | | "The Seven Storey Mountain" by Thomas Merton (Brother M. Louis) is the autobiography of a young man, | |
News Newark NJ (1 February 1948).
| 1948 |
02c | Breaking Silence | "The Seven Storey Mountain" (Harcourt. $3) is the autobiography of Thomas Merton. Of English and | |
Michigan Catholic (18 January 1948).
| 1948 |
02d | | What are Chicago high school fellows and girls reading these days? Are they solely comic book | Daly, Sheila John |
Tribune Chicago, IL (17 July 1948). Sheila John Daly
| 1948 |
02f | World Left Behind | Harcourt, Brace & Co. announce the publication on Aug 12 of 'The Seven Storey Mountain," by Thomas | |
News Detroit, MI (11 July 1948).
| 1948 |
03a | Renouncing the World | The poet Thomas Merton now tells the story of his life in "The Seven Storey Mountain," a symbol | |
New York Herald-Tribune (17 September 1948)
| 1948 |
03b | Decay and Renewal | How did it ever happen that, when the dregs of the world had collected in Western Europe, when Goth | |
New York Times (3 October 1948).
| 1948 |
03c | The Seven Storey Mountain | Thomas Merton has written an account of what happened to one of the bright young men who matured | Cheatham, Richard |
Carolina Quarterly (Fall 1948). Richard Cheatham
| 1948 |
03d | Publisher's Row | Although mules are said to have only an academic interest in posterity, David Stern apparently | |
New York Times.
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03e | The Seven Storey Mountain | Autobiographical account of a worldly, active, and intelligent young American who, at the age of 28, | |
Retail Bookseller New York City (September 1948).
| 1948 |
04a | Life and Poems of a Trappist Monk | Because Thomas Merton's autobiography, "The Seven Storey Mountain" (the title refers to Dante's | Gregory, Horace |
New York Times (3 October 1948): 4,33. Horace Gregory
| 1948 |
04b | General | The autobiography of a thirty-three year old poet who is also a Trappist monk in the monastery of | |
New Yorker (9 October 1948).
| 1948 |
04c | The Seven Storey Mountain | Autobiographical account of a worldly, active, and intelligent young American who, at the age of 28, | |
Retail Bookseller (October 1948).
| 1948 |
05a | Soul of a Poet | The author of this autobiography is a young poet who, at the age of 26, entered the Trappist | Farrelly, John |
New Republic (4 October 1948). John Farrelly
| 1948 |
05b | Kingdom of Suffering | It has been my good fortune, over the past few years, to read and review the poetry of Thomas Merton | Wolfe, Ann F. |
Saturday Review of Literature 31 [New York] (9 October 1948): 30. Ann F. Wolfe.
| 1948 |
06a | Library Column | "Seven Story Mountain" is the autobiography of Thomas Merton, a convert to Catholicism, who entered | |
Herald Natick, Mass (14 October 1948).
| 1948 |
06b | Cahtolic Convert Finds His Peace | From a cell in the Trappist Monastery of Our Lady of Gethsemane in Kentucky comes the frank, | Albert, Abby |
Courier-Journal [Louisville, KY] (10 October 1948). Abby Albert
| 1948 |
06c | Life of Merton | The autobiography of Thomas Merton, a brilliant young American and famous poet, is rather an intense | O'Brien, Frank |
Observer [Raleigh NC] (10 October 1948). Frank O'Brien
| 1948 |
06d | Books at a Glance | Experiences of a young man of the world, a poet, a one-time Communist, who entered a Trappist | |
News San Francisco CA (22 October 1948).
| 1948 |
07a | Books | In Bernanos' "Diary of a Country Priest," when a renegade cleric who has been asked by the dying | Miles, George |
Commonweal 49 (15 October 1948): 16. George Miles
| 1948 |
07b | Ex-Red Turned Monk Writes Absorbing Story | It is an autobiography of a young man now a monk in the Order of the Cistercians of the Strict | |
News Cleveland, OH (20 October 1948). Incomplete copy
| 1948 |
07c | Merton's Flight from a World of Trivialities | This is the autobiography of a man who was town between a lobe of worldly pleasures and a hunger for | Barry, Edward |
Chicago Tribune (17 October 1948). Edward Barry
| 1948 |
08a | October Selection | The Seven Storey Mountain is the autobiography of Thomas Merton, a convert to Catholicism, who is | Stephen McKenna, CSSR |
Best Sellers [Scranton, PA] 8 (15 October 1948): 146. Stephen McKenna, CSSR
| 1948 |
08b | Story of Life In Trappist Monastery | In 1941, when he was 26 Years old, Thomas Merton, son of a well known artist, and himself a gifted | Fuess, Claude M. |
Herald Boston, Mass (24 October 1948). Claude M. Fuess
| 1948 |
08c | A Poet's Testimonial of A Profound Experience | Thomas Merton, a young religious of the austere Cistercian order, commonly known as the Trappists | Black, John S. |
Post-Dispatch St. Louis MO (31 October 1948). John S. Black
| 1948 |
09a | On the Road to Gethsemani | It seems odd that people should be writing the story of their lives while still in their teens and | Shuster, George N. |
New York Herald Tribune (24 October 1948). George Shuster
| 1948 |
09b | A Poet Finds Salvation In Religion | An autobiography to be worth reading must not only detail the things the author did but must reveal | Fender, George W. |
Times Herald Dallas, TX (21 November 1948). George W. Fender
| 1948 |
09c | The Seven Storey Mountain | This autobiography of a young man in search of God is a kind of "Hound in Heaven" in prose. It | McGarey, Mary |
Star Washington DC (28 November 1948). M. McG.
| 1948 |
09d | | Rather in the style of St. Augustine's confessions is Seven Story Mountain by Thomas Merton, a young | |
Herald Syracuse NY (14 November 1948).
| 1948 |
10a | Not only from the pews | If there must come "art from the pews," and there must, we hope that it is not for the reasons | Digby, Fred |
America (6 November 1948). Fred Digby
| 1948 |
10b | | This is a portentous book because the author with his candid camera has not only made in his | |
America (13 November 1948).
| 1948 |
10c | The Seven Storey Mountain by Thomas Merton | As Dante climbed the Mount of Purgatory, at each stage he was freed from the burden of one of the | Davenport, Basil |
Book of the Month (November 1940). Basil Davenport
| 1940 |
10d | Merton, Thomas | Autobiography of a young American poet, who, after, his conversion to Roman Catholicism entered the | Miles, George; G.D. McDonald, Horace Gregory, and A.F. Wolfe |
Book Review Digest. Excerpts from reviews by George Miles, G.D. McDonald, Horace Gregory, and A.F. Wolfe
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11a | A Trappist Monk Recalls His Life as Worldy Poet | This is the autobiography of a cosmopolite and a true child of our century who, after tasting the | |
Journal Milwaukee Wis (14 November 1948).
| 1948 |
11b | Trappist: Young Poet Writes a Life Toward Grace | This is the autobiography of the 33-year-old Trappist monk whose poetry has excited a good deal of | |
Journal Providence, RI (28 November 1948). W.T.S.
| 1948 |
11c | Finds Spiritual Solace in Too Material World | It is most heartening in these evil days of slipshod writing and superficial thinking to come upon | Joseph Immaculate, Sr. |
Brooklyn Daily Eagle (14 November 1948). Sister Joseph Immaculate
| 1948 |
11d | The Seven Storey Mountain | This contribution to the history of religious experience should interest many readers because of its | |
News Detroit, MI (14 November 1948).
| 1948 |
11e | The Seven Storey Mountain | Spectacular autobiography of conversion of young worldling, now a Trappist and one of our greatest | |
Catholic Messenger Davenport Iowa (4 November 1948).
| 1948 |
11f | | Another autobiographical study set in the period between two wars is the distinctive "the Seven | |
Patriot Ledger (3 November 1948).
| 1948 |
12a | | Poet Thomas Merton, now a Trappist monk, lent poetic excitement to his autobiographical account of a | |
Time Magazine (20 December 1948).
| 1948 |
12b | Modern Augustine | Saint Augustine was 40 years old when he turned from his worldly ways to God. Thomas Merton was only | Regan, Emmett T. |
News Chicago, IL (29 December 1948). Rev Emmett T. Regan
| 1948 |
12c | Books--Old and New | In the world he is known as Thomas Merton, a young poet who writes with lucidity and grace. In | Templeton, Lucy |
News Sentinel Knoxville, TN (21 November 1948). Lucy Templeton
| 1948 |
13a | Life of a Monk | Literary prospectors will discover some precious metal in Thom Merton's autobiography. Trappist | Hanlon, Frank |
Bulletin Philadelphia PA (19 December 1948). Frank Hanlon
| 1948 |
13b | Merton, Thomas | Thirty-three years ago, to an English artist-father and an American Quaker mother, was born Thomas | |
Guidepost Cincinnati, OH (December 1948).
| 1948 |
13c | The Seven Storey Mountain | Dante's seven-circled mountain of Purgatory suggested the title for Thomas Merton's autobiography. | |
San Francisco CA (12 December 1948). J.V.
| 1948 |
13d | | A book describing one man's transition from lack of faith to a condition of religious peace is | |
Vindicator Youngstown O (19 December 1948).
| 1948 |
13e | | Those who are sometimes suspicious of best seller lists may be interested to know that the | |
New York World-Telegram (21 December 1948).
| 1948 |
13f | | Catholic readers will not want to pass over Thomas Merton's "Seven Storey Mountain" (Harcourt, $3), | |
Evening News Buffalo, NY (11 December 1948).
| 1948 |
14a | Speaking of Books | Last week's column was, not inappropriately, devoted in past to a backward look, with a measure of | Donald Adams, J. |
| 1949 |
14b | 'Only the brave can live alone' | Thomas Merton, poet, Catholic convert and Trappist monk, at 33 has written his autobiography, a | Supple, James O. |
Chicago Sun [Chicago, IL] (28 December 1948). James O. supple
| 1948 |
14c | From World of Silence | Out of the centuries-laden silence of a Trappist monastery has come a new book as modern as a | Williams, George M. |
Post Denver Colo (2 January 1949). George M'Williams
| 1949 |
14d | Merton, Thomas, OCSO | Acclaimed by Monsignor Fulton [] century form of the Confessions of [] biographical document of the | |
Catholic Booklist Rosary College River Forest, IL (1949). Incomplete copy
| 1949 |
14e | | Thomas Merton's "The Seven Storey Mountain" is the autobiography of a young man who led a full and | |
Dispatch Herald (2 January 1949).
| 1949 |
15a | The Silence and the Gold | Every season has its surprise hits, and possibly the most surprising of them, in the semester just | |
New York Herald-Tribune (9 January 1949).
| 1949 |
15b | Artist's Son | This autobiography of an artist's son who, at 26, became a Trappist monk is unusual, moving--and | McFadden, Elizabeth |
News Newark NJ (2 January 1949). Elizabeth McFadden
| 1949 |
15c | Poet Turns Trappist | This book, which has earned the praises of Evelyn Waugh, Clare Booth Luce, Monsignor Fulton J. Sheen | Aherne, Daniel E. |
Courant Hartford Conn (2 January 1949). Daniel E. Ahearne
| 1949 |
15d | | Thomas Merton's "Seven Storey Mountain" has sold 70,000 copies to date according to J. Donald Adams | |
Monitor San Francisco, CA (14 January 1949).
| 1949 |
15e | | The new non-fiction books at the public library include: "The Seven Storey Mountain" by Thomas | |
Tribune LaCrosse Wisc (13 January 1949).
| 1949 |
15f | Poet and Monk | Thomas Merton, the poet and Trappist monk whose autobiography, "Seven Storey Mountain," is now near | |
New York Herald-Tribune (2 February 1949).
| 1949 |
15g | Odds and Ends. | ...Another new printing of 25,000 copies of "The Seven Storey Mountain," by Thomas Merton--the | |
Chronicle San Francisco, CA (5 February 1949).
| 1949 |
15h | Remarkable Book | Readers of this page may remember in this column, a long and enthusiastic review of The Seven Storey | |
News Sentinel Knoxville, TN (6 February 1949).
| 1949 |
16a | Seven Story Mountain | A very unusual autobiography of a young American who after being thoroughly immersed in the world, | |
State Columbia SC (13 February 1949).
| 1949 |
16b | Non-Fiction | Seven Story Mountain is an outstanding autobiography of Thomas Merton, who entered a Trappist | |
Facts Redland, CA (4 February 1949).
| 1949 |
16c | | Thomas Merton, the young Trappist monk and poet whose autobiography, "The Seven Storey Mountain," | |
New York Times (3 February 1949).
| 1949 |
16d | The Seven Storey Mountain | Autobiography of a modern Augustine who, after fumbling with Communism and sipping the superficial | |
Globe Boston, Mass (6 March 1949).
| 1949 |
16e | Non-Fiction | The autobiography of a young man who led a full and worldly life, and then, at the age of | |
Reporter Berlin NH (17 February 1949)
| 1949 |
16f | "The Seven Story Mountain" by Thomas Merton | This is a striking story of a young American who lived a full and worldly life and then, at the age | |
News Milford, Mass (15 February 1949).
| 1949 |
16g | Seven Storey Mountain | A young man of the world became a Trappist monk in a Kentucky monastery, Seven years later, at the | |
Jrl Transcript Franklin, NH (17 March 1949)
| 1949 |
16h | Autobiography Hits Best-Selling Stride | Harcourt, Brace & Co. announces that another new printing of 25,000 copies of "The Seven Storey | |
News Detroit, MI (27 February 1949).
| 1949 |
16i | The Seven Storey Mountain | Autobiography of a modern Augustine, who, after fumbling with Communism and sipping the superficial | |
Publishers Weekly (26 February 1949).
| 1949 |
17a | A Man Who Found An Ardent Faith | Of "The Seven Storey Mountain" (the title comes from Dante's depiction of Purgatory as a seven- | Kenny, Herbert A. |
Post Boston, Mass (16 January 1949). Herbert A. Kenny
| 1949 |
17b | | Thomas Merton's The Seven Story Mountain (Harcourt $3.00) continues to astound the booksellers and | |
Commonweal (25 February 1949)
| 1949 |
17c | Book Comments | There are some outstanding fiction and non-fiction books now on display at the Middlesex Drug store | |
Stoneham Independent [Stoneham, Mass] (3 March 1949).
| 1949 |
17d | | As this week is Catholic Book Week it is an appropriate time to call attention to another 1948 book | |
Herald Rutland, VT (22 February 1949).
| 1949 |
17e | The Seven Storey Mountain | "The Seven Storey Mountain," written by Thomas Merton and published by Harcourt, Brace & Co., is the | Darsie, Darsie L. |
Herald Express Los Angeles CA (9 March 1949). Darsie L. Darsie
| 1949 |
17f | | A manuscript of Thomas Merton's "The Seven Storey Mountain," the Trappist monk's autobiography which | |
Journal Milwaukee (March 1949).
| 1949 |
18a | For This No-Church's Land | William James would have found ample documentation for his "Varieties of Religious Experience in the | Miller, Kenneth D. |
| 1949 |
18b | The Seven Storey Mountain | Strange though it may seem to the average modern, this autobiography of a twentieth century | |
Catholic Register Sacramento, CA (27 March 1949).
| 1949 |
19a | The Reading Glass | Can we believe the best seller lists? A free for all literary slugfest is raging in New York over | |
Journal Milwaukee, WI (27 March 1949).
| 1949 |
19b | Thomas Merton, Trappist Monk, Offers Fine Document of Conversion | Last December, a book, written by a young Trappist monk, was published and reviewed, but received | |
Vallejo, CA (10 April 1949).
| 1949 |
19c | That Hardy Perennial, "Best Sellers," in the News Again | new York, March 26--"What d'ya mean, 'best seller?'" asks the Saturday Review of Literature, and the | |
Cleveland Plain Dealer (27 March 1949).
| 1949 |
20a | The Seven Storey Mountain | From a bare cell in Gethsemani, Kentucky, a book has come out from a man who has foresworn speech as | |
Chronicle Augusta, GA (24 April 1949). E.Y.
| 1949 |
20b | | A highly interesting account of mental and spiritual development from youth to manhood is furnished | |
Think New York City (May 1949).
| 1949 |
20c | | I asked about the new items on the Harcourt Brace list, and it appears that Thomas Merton is writing | |
Times Herald Dallas, TX (1 May 1949).
| 1949 |
20d | The Seven Storey Mountain | The descriptive title of Thomas Merton's autobiography is borrowed from Dante's image of Purgatory. | |
Virginia Quarterly Review Charlottesville, VA (summer 1949)
| 1949 |
20e | The Inner Life | For weeks Thomas Merton's The Seven Storey Mountain has headed the list of non-fiction best sellers. | Templeton, Lucy |
News-Sentinel Knoxville, TN (1 May 1949). Lucy Templeton
| 1949 |
20f | Thomas Merton, Author, Becomes Trappist Priest | Louisville, May 26--In a solemn ceremony of the Roman Catholic Church, Thomas Merton, author of the | |
New York Times (27 May 1949).
| 1949 |
21a | The Monastic Life | Many a man has heard the distant call of monastic life. I have heard it myself no only on visits to | |
Atlantic (May 1949).
| 1949 |
21b | St. Irene's Guild Members Hear Mrs. Rudkin Review | Assembling in the dining room at the home of Mrs. Ernest J. Woelfel of Summit avenue, Peabody, just | |
Telegram-News Lynn, Mass (8 May 1949).
| 1949 |
21c | An Autobiography of a Religious Man | Occasionally a book slips by one with insufficient attention when it first appears. Such is Thomas | |
Spokesman Review Spokane, Wash (17 July 1949).
| 1949 |
21d | | "The Seven Storey Mountain" is the autobiography of Thomas Merton who entered a Trappist monastery | |
Union Bulletin Walla Walla Wash (26 June 1949).
| 1949 |
21e | The Seven Storey Mountain | Thomas Merton has written about his mental and spiritual development from youth to manhood. His | |
Argonaut San Francisco, CA (10 June 1949).
| 1949 |
21f | | As a companion volume to "the Seven Storey Mountain," by Thomas Merton, Harcourt, Brace will release | |
Enterprise Riverside CA (22 August 1949).
| 1949 |
21g | The Seven Storey Mountain | This is an autobiography of a young man whose life moves from Cambridge and Columbia universities to | |
Monitor & NH Patriot Concord NH (22 June 1949)
| 1949 |
21h | Merton Adds Volume to His Autobiography | A companion volume to Thomas Merton's now famous autobiography, "The Seven Storey Mountain," will be | |
News Detroit, MI (28 August 1949).
| 1949 |
22a | "The Seven Storey Mountain" | high on the best-seller lists these days is an amazing book, "The Seven Storey Mountain." by one | |
Press Gleaner Glendora, CA (20 April 1949).
| 1949 |
22b | What is Happening? | The best selling non-fiction book is The Greatest Story Ever Told by Fulton Oursler. The next best- | |
Catholic Mirror (June 1949).
| 1949 |
22c | The Cloister | After the dismaying neurosis of much of the serious writing from contemporary America, this account | |
News Review London England.
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22d | Merton's Novel Hits Success In Third Attempt | New York -- (CPA) -- When Thomas Merton, author of the best-selling The Seven Storey Mountain took | |
Catholic Messenger Davenport IA (8 September 1949).
| 1949 |
22e | | Thomas Merton's non-fiction work, the best-selling Seven Storey Mountain, has been published in | |
Chronicle Augusta, GA (2 October 1949).
| 1949 |
23a | Merton, Thomas | "To a Protestant, this book is a mixed blessing. As an autobiography it has in it the search for the | Weeks, Edward; J.O. Supple |
Book Review Digest (August 1949). Excerpts of reviews by Edward Weeks, J.O. Supple
| 1949 |
23b | The Reading Hour | The most active and exuberant of people have moments when the contemplative life has its charms. In | Banes, Louise Parks |
Bakersfield, CA (14 May 1949). Louise Parks Banes
| 1949 |
23c | | There was no outstanding literary or publishing success in 1949, nothing remotely approaching "Gone | |
News Week (12 December 1949).
| 1949 |
24a | | We still think that if one wants to learn something of Catholicism he will find a much more | |
Press Glendora CA (4 November 1949)
| 1949 |
24b | Irish House Adds to Board | Planning expansion of business Irish publishers Clonmore and Reynolds, who handled the Irish edition | |
Variety New York City (October)
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24c | Books and Authors | If publishers have any idea about what America wants to read--and if they didn't they would be out | Dedmon, Emmett |
Chicago Sun (1949). Emmett Dedmon
| 1949 |
24d | Books for Catholic Readers | The autobiography of Thomas Merton, a mundane, young intellectual who after fully immersing himself | Hartung, Marguerite |
Advance Burlingame, CA (24 November 1949). Marguerite Hartung
| 1949 |
24e | The Seven Storey Mountain | both by Rev. Fr. Thomas Merton, are recommended to those who may wish to understand how one man | |
Press Cleveland OH (6 December 1949).
| 1949 |
24f | Joy Through Prayer | Prayer, the act of loving converse with our Maker, is the one occupation that brings greatest joy to | |
America (November)
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25a | Merton Wins Award | The Golden Book Award of the Catholic Writers Guild of America for the best nonfiction volume by a | |
Times Indianapolis IN (29 January 1950).
| 1950 |
25b | | Thomas Merton's best-selling autobiography, "The Seven Storey Mountain," which was recently | |
Journal Atlanta, GA (8 January 1950).
| 1950 |
25c | Seven Story Mountain | A significant account of the spiritual journey of a thoroughly modern young man to his eventual and | |
Herald Boston, MA (19 February 1950).
| 1950 |
25d | What's Heaven Like? | Spiritual geographers seem to have learned nothing new on the subject in the last three quarters of | |
Michigan Catholic Detroit MI (12 January 1950).
| 1950 |
25e | Best Seller Translations | Thomas Merton's autobiography, "The Seven Story Mountain," best seller, has been translated into | |
Press Cleveland OH (8 January 1950)
| 1950 |
25f | | Thomas Merton's two books, "Seven Storey Mountain" and "The Waters of Siloe" are also excellent | |
Californian Bakersfield, CA (18 March 1950)
| 1950 |
25g | Elected Silence | It's author, Thomas Merton, has the unusual distinction of being the author of two books which are | |
News Jackson Miss (15 January 1950).
| 1950 |
25h | | Thomas Merton's best-selling autobiography, "The Seven Storey Mountain," has recently been published | |
Times Los Angeles, CA (9 January 1950).
| 1950 |
26a | Notes on the Margin | Just published as a Modern Library Giant as $2.45 is Saint Augustine's "the City of God" with a | |
Chronicle San Francisco, CA (8 June 1950).
| 1950 |
26b | | "Seven Storey Mountain" by Thomas Merton is an autobiography of Father M. Louis, as he is known in | |
Hillsboro Argus [Hillsboro, Ore] (4 May 1950).
| 1950 |
26c | "The Seven Story Mountain" by Thomas Merton | The famous story of a man who at 26 gave up a luxurious, carefree life for the drabber but more | |
News Newark, NJ (6 August 1952)
| 1952 |
26d | Notes on the Margin | To appear in February is a book called "Roman Road," in which an Englishman, George Lamb, inspired | |
Chronicle San Francisco, CA.
| no-year |
27 | Of Many Things | When Harcourt Brace reissued four months ago Thomas Merton's The Seven Storey Mountain in a 50th | Samway, Patrick H., SJ |
America 180.5 (20 February 1999): 2. Patrick H. Samway SJ
| 1999 |
28 | The Seven Storey Mountain by Thomas Merton | The book called the Confessions of St. Augustine is celebrated in world literature as the first | McCarthy, Abigail Q. |
Orate Fratres 23 (20 February 1949): 187-189. Abigail Q. McCarthy
| 1949 |
29 | Autobiography of a Soul | The autobiography of Thomas Merton, a mundane, young intellectual who after fully immersing himself | Jones, V.L. |
Phylon 10.2 (2nd Qtr 1949): 174-175. V.L. Jones
| 1949 |
30 | The Seven Storey Mountain by Thomas Merton | This is a portentous book because the author with his candid camera has not only made in his | Lowrie, Walter |
Theology Today 6.4 (January 1950): 567. Walter Lowrie
| 1950 |
31 | Classic Returns | Harcourt is pulling out all the stops for this 50th-anniversary edition of Merton's spiritual | Rogers, Michael |
Library Journal 123.14 (1 September 1998): 224. Michael Rogers
| 1998 |
32 | Taste -- Houses of Worship Merton's Storied Classic | Fifty years ago this Sunday, a book appeared that told of a young man who had embraced and rejected | Powers, Elizabeth |
Wall Street Journal (2 October 1998): W14. Elizabeth Powers
| 1998 |
33 | Twentieth-century Augustine | Thomas Merton, after living in ten years what most men live in thirty, entered the Trappist | Hart, Hubert N. |
America 80 (16 October 1943): 47-48. Hubert N. Hart
| 1943 |
34 | Exciting Autobiography Condemns Modernism | In the winter of 1935 a young Columbia University student names Tom Merton was attending Communist | Magaret, Helene |
Books on Trial 7 (October-November 1948): 133, 144. Helene Magaret
| 1948 |
35 | Unexpurgated | All publishers make mistakes sometimes. It seems as though the Sheldon Press (whose recent | Allchin, A. M. (Arthur Macdonald) |
Church Times [London] (26 December 1975): 6. A.M. Allchin
| 1975 |
36 | Beyond Humiliation | At the last judgment it will not be embarrassing to have our sins made public, nor will the | Jackson, Carol |
Integrity 3 (october 1948): 43-44. Carol Jackson
| 1948 |
37 | A gripping story of God's grace and a soul in search of itself | When Thomas Merton's The Seven Storey Mountain was published in 1948, it was not greeted with | Stephenson, John B. |
Lexington Herald-Leader (2 February 1992): F4. John B. Stephenson
| 1992 |
38 | High Spirits | George Woodcock and the late Thomas Merton are both of them copious and fluent writers and their | Cameron, J.M. |
New York Review of Books 26 (27 September 1979): 25-26. J.M. Cameron
| 1979 |
39 | The voice of contemplation | Merton's the Seven Storey Mountain, which first appeared in this country 30 years ago under the | Toynbee, Philip |
Observer [London] (12 March 1978): review section. Philip Toynbee
| 1978 |
40 | Years of Silence | The recent hegira in Western society, especially of the young, to sit at the feet of oriental gurus, | McCulloch, Joseph |
Times [London] (18 December 1975): 22. Joseph McCulloch
| 1975 |
41 | Creative Endeavour | The Seven Storey Mountain, Thomas Merton's account of his early life in America, France and England | Fawcett, Sarah |
Tablet [London] 230 (7 February 1976): 140.
| 1976 |
42 | A Study in Redemption | Thomas Merton is more than an American: he is a monk, and one who has been brought to the Faith | Evans, Illtud OP |
Catholic World 170 (October 1949): 71-71.
| 1949 |
43 | | Few books in our day have been so eagerly awaited as this autobiography of a thirty-three-year old | Connolly, Francis Xavier |
Catholic World (November 1948): 167-168.
| 1948 |
44 | Mystics Among Us | In two perceptive, quietly stirring books published this week, an old and a young American gave | |
Time Magazine 52.25 (11 October 1948): 87-89.
| 1948 |
45 | The Complete Twentieth-Century Man | The extraordinary success of Thomas Merton's autobiography, The Seven Storey Mountain, owes as | Connolly, Francis Xavier |
Thought 24 (March 1949): 10-14.
| 1949 |
46 | | The young American poet here details the story of his life from his birth in 1915 to the present day | Justin, Brother FSC |
Catholic Library World 20 (January 1949): 134.
| 1949 |
47 | | This is the autobiography of Thomas Merton, a convert to Catholicism, who is now a Trappist priest | |
Best Sellers 12 (1 June 1952): 52.
| 1952 |
48 | Within Merton/Merton Within | One of the most haunting phrases in Thomas Merton's writings is a passage in The Seven Storey | Forest, Jim |
U.S. Catholic (April 2000): 22-23, 25.
| 2000 |
49 | | In this time and culture few persons are born to the ways of asceticism and Christian mysticism. | |
Carroll Quarterly 2 (Fall-Winter 1948): 40-42.
| 1948 |
50 | | Today we are beginning to gather our converts from Communism and so-called Liberalism. | Bregy, Katherine |
Sign 28 (November 1948): 59.
| 1948 |
51 | Thomas Merton, '37, Tells How He Became A Trappist Monk. | "The Seven Storey Mountain," one of the top ten best sellers in the non fiction field for the past several weeks, | Finkelstein, Mike |
Columbia Spectator 71.86 (February 24, 1949): 6.
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52 | Spiritual Saga | One theme runs through Thomas | Cameron-Brown, Aldhelm OSB |
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53 | Merton Book is a Portrait of a 'Successful Man' | In the years since the war biography and autobiography | Gilligan, John Joyce |
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