Early Essays, 1947–1952

Editions in your language first, without hiding the others. Each with its cover and its store.

• Thirty Poems · 1944
• A Man in the Divided Sea · 1946
• Figures for an Apocalypse · 1947
• Exile Ends in Glory · 1948
• What Are These Wounds? · 1948
• The Seven Storey Mountain · 1948
• Guide to Cistercian Life · 1948
• Cistercian Contemplatives · 1948
• The Spirit of Simplicity · 1948
• What Is Contemplation? · 1948
• Seeds of Contemplation · 1949
• The Tears of the Blind Lions · 1949
• The Waters of Siloe · 1949
• Gethsemani Magnificat · 1949
• The Ascent to Truth · 1951
• Bread in the Wilderness · 1953
• The Sign of Jonas · 1953
• The Last of the Fathers · 1954
• No Man Is an Island · 1955
• The Living Bread · 1956
• Praying the Psalms · 1956
• Silence in Heaven · 1956
• The Silent Life · 1957
• The Strange Islands · 1957
• The Tower of Babel · 1957
• Basic Principles of Monastic Spirituality · 1957
• Monastic Peace · 1958
• Nativity Kerygma · 1958
• Prometheus: A Meditation · 1958
• Thoughts in Solitude · 1958
• The Secular Journal of Thomas Merton · 1959
• Selected Poems · 1959
• Disputed Questions · 1960
• The Wisdom of the Desert · 1960
• Spiritual Direction and Meditation · 1960
• The Solitary Life · 1960
• The New Man · 1961
• The Behavior of Titans · 1961
• New Seeds of Contemplation · 1961
• Original Child Bomb · 1962
• Hagia Sophia · 1962
• Clement of Alexandria · 1962
• A Thomas Merton Reader · 1962
• Breakthrough to Peace · 1962
• Life and Holiness · 1963
• Emblems of a Season of Fury · 1963
• Come to the Mountain · 1964
• Seeds of Destruction · 1964
• Gandhi on Non-Violence · 1965
• The Way of Chuang Tzu · 1965
• Seasons of Celebration · 1965
• Raids on the Unspeakable · 1966
• Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander · 1966
• Redeeming the Time · 1966
• Gethsemani: A Life of Praise · 1966
• Mystics and Zen Masters · 1967
• Cables to the Ace · 1968
• Faith and Violence · 1968
• Zen and the Birds of Appetite · 1968
• Monks Pond · 1968
• My Argument with the Gestapo · 1969
• Contemplative Prayer · 1969
• The Geography of Lograire · 1969
• Opening the Bible · 1970
• Contemplation in a World of Action · 1971
• Thomas Merton on Peace · 1971
• The Asian Journal of Thomas Merton · 1973
• He Is Risen · 1975
• Ishi Means Man · 1976
• The Monastic Journey · 1977
• The Collected Poems of Thomas Merton · 1977
• Love and Living · 1979
• Thomas Merton on Saint Bernard · 1980
• The Nonviolent Alternative · 1980
• The Literary Essays of Thomas Merton · 1981
• Day of a Stranger · 1981
• Introductions East and West · 1981
• Woods, Shore, Desert · 1982
• Eighteen Poems · 1985
• The Hidden Ground of Love · 1985
• A Vow of Conversation · 1988
• Thomas Merton in Alaska · 1988
• The Road to Joy · 1989
• The School of Charity · 1990
• The Springs of Contemplation · 1992
• Thomas Merton, Spiritual Master · 1992
• The Courage for Truth · 1993
• Witness to Freedom · 1994
• At Home in the World · 1995
• Thoughts on the East · 1995
• Run to the Mountain · 1995
• Entering the Silence · 1996
• A Search for Solitude · 1996
• Turning Toward the World · 1996
• Dancing in the Water of Life · 1997
• Learning to Love · 1997
• The Other Side of the Mountain · 1998
• Diarios (Spanish two-volume selection) · 2001
• Striving Towards Being · 1997
• Thomas Merton and James Laughlin: Selected Letters · 1997
• From Monastery to World · 1998
• The Intimate Merton · 1999
• Dialogues with Silence · 2001
• When Prophecy Still Had a Voice · 2001
• Survival or Prophecy? · 2002
• The Inner Experience · 2003
• Seeking Paradise · 2003
• Peace in the Post-Christian Era · 2004
• In the Dark Before Dawn · 2005
• Cassian and the Fathers · 2005
• Cold War Letters · 2006
• Pre-Benedictine Monasticism · 2006
• Echoing Silence · 2007
• An Introduction to Christian Mysticism · 2008
• A Life in Letters · 2008
• The Rule of Saint Benedict · 2009
• Compassionate Fire · 2009
• Monastic Observances · 2010
• The Life of the Vows · 2012
• Selected Essays · 2013
• In the Valley of Wormwood · 2013
• Merton and the Tao · 2013
• The Letters of Thomas Merton and Victor and Carolyn Hammer · 2014
• Charter, Customs, and Constitutions of the Cistercians · 2015
• The Letters of Robert Giroux and Thomas Merton · 2015
• The Cistercian Fathers and Their Monastic Theology · 2016
• Cistercian Fathers and Forefathers · 2018
• Medieval Cistercian History · 2019
• A Monastic Introduction to Sacred Scripture · 2020
• Beholding Paradise · 2020
• Notes on Genesis and Exodus · 2021

• Thomas Merton Center, Bellarmine University. «Thomas Merton: Chronology of Life and Publications».