Thomas Merton
Author
Publisher
Learn25
Pub. Date
2018
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
William Faulkner was undoubtedly one of the greatest American writers. Now, you can take Thomas Merton as your personal guide in discovering the literary and spiritual genius of Faulkner's works.
Awarded both the Nobel and Pulitzer Prizes, William Cuthbert Faulkner (1897–1962) was a multi-talented writer who wrote such beloved classics as The Sound and the Fury and As I Lay Dying. In this series, you will join renowned...
Awarded both the Nobel and Pulitzer Prizes, William Cuthbert Faulkner (1897–1962) was a multi-talented writer who wrote such beloved classics as The Sound and the Fury and As I Lay Dying. In this series, you will join renowned...
Author
Publisher
New Directions
Pub. Date
1970
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Wisdom of the Desert was one of Thomas Merton's favorites among his own books—surely because he had hoped to spend his last years as a hermit.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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Description
Thoughtful and eloquent, as timely (or timeless) now as when it was originally published in 1956, Thoughts in Solitude addresses the pleasure of a solitary life, as well as the necessity for quiet reflection in an age when so little is private. Thomas Merton writes: "When society is made up of men who know no interior solitude it can no longer be held together by love: and consequently it is held together by a violent and abusive authority. But
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English
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Description
"This autobiography is the account of the growing restlessness of a brilliant and passionate young man whose search for peace and faith eventually leads him, at the age of twenty-six, to take vows in one of the most demanding religious orders - the Trappists. At the monastery, and within the "four walls of my new freedom," Merton wrote this extraordinary testament - a document of a man who withdrew from the world only after he had fully immersed himself...
Author
Series
New Directions paperbook volume 1091
Language
English
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Description
One of the best-loved books by one of the great spiritual authors of our time, with a new introduction by best-selling author Sue Monk Kidd.
New Seeds of Contemplation is one of Thomas Merton's most widely read and best-loved books. Christians and non-Christians alike have joined in praising it as a notable successor in the meditative tradition of St. John of the Cross, The Cloud of Unknowing, and the medieval mystics, while...Author
Series
Journals of Thomas Merton volume 7
Publisher
HarperSanFrancisco
Pub. Date
[1998]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xix, 348 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Journals of Thomas Merton volume 2
Publisher
HarperSanFrancisco
Pub. Date
[1996]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xvii, 501 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Journals of Thomas Merton volume 3
Publisher
HarperSanFrancisco
Pub. Date
[1996]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xviii, 406 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
14) The new man
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Pub. Date
[1961]
Physical Desc
248 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, Giroux
Pub. Date
1988.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xi, 211 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
The journal kept by Merton during 1964 and 1965, containing his daily meditations during the crucial and difficult period in which the permission he had awaited so long -- to live alone in his hermitage -- was finally given. These pages reveal his reflections as a hermit on the joys and dangers of a life of solitude in the woods. -- PUBLIHER DESCRIPTION.
19) Selected poems
Author
Publisher
[New Directions Pub. Corp.]
Pub. Date
[1967]
Edition
Enlarged edition.
Physical Desc
xvii, 140 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English