Thomas Merton - The Seven Storey Mountain and more (72 books)

For P., with appreciation and gratitude

THOMAS MERTON (1915-1968) was an American Trappist monk, writer, theologian, mystic, poet, social activist, and scholar of comparative religion. He was arguably the most influential American Catholic author of the twentieth century, writing more than sixty books ranging from monastic spirituality to civil rights, social justice, nonviolence, and nuclear proliferation, as well as many essays and reviews.

Merton converted to Roman Catholicism and in 1941 entered a community of monks belonging to the Trappists, the most ascetic Roman Catholic monastic order. He gained international reputation with the publication of his bestselling autobiography, THE SEVEN STOREY MOUNTAIN (1948) , in which he reflects on his early life and on the quest for faith in God. It became the defining spiritual memoir of its time and served as a powerful recruitment tool, sending scores of World War II veterans, students, and even teenagers flocking to monasteries across the U.S. Time magazine said it "redefined the image of monasticism and made the concept of saintliness accessible to moderns", and it has never been out of print.

His early works are strictly spiritual, but by the 1960s he had arrived at a broadly human viewpoint, one deeply concerned about the world and issues like peace, racial tolerance, and social equality. He became, according to Daniel Berrigan, the conscience of the peace movement. Referring to race and peace as the two most urgent issues of our time, Merton was a strong supporter of the nonviolent civil rights movement, which he called "certainly the greatest example of Christian faith in action in the social history of the United States." For his social activism Merton endured severe criticism, from Catholics and non-Catholics alike, who assailed his political writings as unbecoming of a monk.

During his last years, Merton became deeply interested in Asian religions, particularly Zen Buddhism, and in promoting interfaith understanding. Having studied the Desert Fathers and other Christian mystics as part of his monastic vocation, Merton found many parallels between the language of these Christian mystics and that of Zen philosophy. He pioneered dialogue with prominent Asian spiritual figures, including the Dalai Lama (who praised Merton as having a more profound understanding of Buddhism than any other Christian he had known), the Japanese writer D. T. Suzuki, the Thai Buddhist monk Buddhadasa, and the Vietnamese monk Thich Nhat Hanh, and authored books on Zen, Confucianism and Taoism.
This collection builds on the exceptional work of @pharmakate, whose original scans of Thomas Merton in 2013 clearly represented a labor of love — and were a source of inspiration for my own work. The following books are in ePUB and/or PDF format as indicated:

* Ascent to Truth, The (Harcourt, 1981/2002) — ePUB + PDF*
* Bread in the Wilderness (New Directions, 1997) — ePUB
* Cistercian Life (Cistercian Book Service, 1974) — PDF
* Climate of Monastic Prayer, The (Liturgical Press, 2018) — ePUB
* Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander (Doubleday, 1966) — PDF*
* Contemplation in a World of Action (Notre Dame, 1998) — ePUB + PDF*
* Contemplative Prayer (Doubleday, 2014) — ePUB + PDF*
* Course in Christian Mysticism (Liturgical Press, 2017). Sweeney, ed. — PDF
* Course in Desert Spirituality (Liturgical Press, 2019). Sweeney, ed. — ePUB
* Dialogues with Silence (HarperCollins, 2007). Montaldo, ed. — ePUB + PDF
* Disputed Questions (Harcourt, 1988) — PDF*
* Essential Writings (Orbis, 2001). C.M. Bochen, ed. — PDF^
* Faith and Violence (Notre Dame, 1968) — PDF
* Gandhi on Non-Violence (New Directions, 2007). Merton, ed. — ePUB + PDF*
* Inner Experience, The (HarperCollins, 2012). Shannon, ed. — ePUB
* Last of the Fathers, The (Harcourt, 1954) — PDF^
* Life and Holiness (Herder & Herder, 1963) — PDF
* Living Bread, The (FSG, 1980) — PDF^
* Love and Living (Harcourt, 1985). N. Stone & P. Hart, eds. — ePUB + PDF*
* Monastic Journey, The (Sheed Andrews & McMeel, 1977). Hart, ed. — PDF^
* Mystics and Zen Masters (Dell, 1967) — PDF
* New Man, The (Bantam, 1981) — PDF*
* New Seeds of Contemplation (New Directions, 1972) — ePUB + PDF*
* No Man Is an Island (Harcourt, 1983) — ePUB
* Nonviolent Alternative, The (FSG, 1980). G. Zahn, ed. — PDF*
* On Christian Contemplation (New Directions, 2012). P. Pearson, ed. — ePUB
* On Eastern Meditation (New Directions, 2012). B. Thurston, ed. — ePUB
* Opening the Bible (Liturgical Press, 1986) — PDF
* Passion for Peace: Social Essays (Crossroad, 1995). Shannon, ed. — PDF*
* Peace in the Post-Christian Era (Orbis, 2004). P. Burton ed. — PDF*
* Raids on the Unspeakable (New Directions, 1966) — ePUB
* Seasons of Celebration (FSG, 1965) — PDF^
* Seeds of Destruction (FSG, 1964) — PDF
* Seeking Paradise: The Spirit of the Shakers (Orbis, 2003) — PDF
* Seven Storey Mountain, The (Harcourt, 1978) — PDF*
* Seven Storey Mountain, The [50th anniversary ed] (Harcourt, 1998) — ePUB
* Sign of Jonas, The (Harcourt, 1981) — ePUB + PDF*
* Silence, Joy: A Selection of Writings (New Directions, 2018). Wait, ed. — ePUB
* Springs of Contemplation (FSG, 2011). J.M. Richardson, ed. — ePUB
* Thomas Merton Reader, A (Harcourt, 1962). T. McDonnell, ed. — PDF
* Thomas Merton: Spiritual Master (Paulist Pr, 1992). Cunningham, ed. — PDF*
* Thoughts in Solitude (FSG, 2011) — ePUB + PDF
* Thoughts on the East (New Directions, 1995) — ePUB + PDF
* Waters of Siloe (Harcourt, 2017) — ePUB
* Way of Chuang Tzu, The (New Directions, 1966) — PDF*
* What is Contemplation? (Templegate, 1981) — PDF
* Way of Chuang Tzu, The (New Directions, 2010). Dalai Lama, Pref. — ePUB
* Why We Live in Community [Eberhard Arnold] (Bruderhof, 2002) — PDF
* Wisdom of the Desert (New Directions, 2012). Merton, trans. — ePUB + PDF*
* Zen and the Birds of Appetite (New Directions, 2010) — ePUB

== POETRY ==

* Emblems of a Season of Fury (New Directions, 1963) — PDF
* In the Dark Before Dawn: New Selected Poems (New Directions, 2005) — ePUB
* Selected Poems (New Directions, 2020) — ePUB

== FICTION ==

* My Argument with the Gestapo (Doubleday, 1969) — ePUB

== JOURNALS ==

* Asian Journal, The (Sheldon, 1974). N. Burton et al., eds. — PDF
* Intimate Merton: His Life from Journals (HarperCollins, 2007). Hart, ed. — PDF
* Journals, Vol. 1: Run to the Mountain (HarperCollins, 2007) — ePUB + PDF
* Journals, Vol. 2: Entering the Silence (HarperCollins, 2007) — PDF
* Journals, Vol. 3: A Search for Solitude (HarperCollins, 2007) — ePUB + PDF
* Journals, Vol. 4: Turning Toward World (HarperCollins, 2007) — ePUB + PDF
* Journals, Vol. 5: Dancing in Water of Life (HarperCollins, 2007) — ePUB + PDF
* Journals, Vol. 6: Learning to Love (HarperCollins, 2011) — ePUB
* Journals, Vol. 7: Other Side of the Mountain (HarperCollins, 2010) — ePUB
* Secular Journal of Thomas Merton, The (FSG, 1977) — PDF
* Year with Thomas Merton, A (HarperCollins, 2007). Montaldo, ed. — ePUB + PDF

== LETTERS ==

* Courage for Truth: Letters to Writers (FSG, 2011). C. Bochen, ed. — ePUB
* From Monastery to the World (Counterpoint, 2017). Sandoval, ed. — ePUB
* Hidden Ground of Love, The (FSG, 2011). W. Shannon, ed. — ePUB
* Road to Joy: Letters to New & Old Friends (FSG, 2011). Daggy, ed. — ePUB
* School of Charity: Letters (FSG, 2011). P. Hart, ed. — ePUB
* Striving Towards Being (FSG, 1997). R. Faggen, ed. — PDF*
* Witness to Freedom (FSG, 2011). W. Shannon, ed. — ePUB

PDF* courtesy of pharmakate
PDF^ courtesy of Mohamed5438

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