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The Seven Storey Mountain

Autobiography of Merton's first twenty-six years, from his birth in Prades to his entry into Gethsemani, written at the suggestion of Abbot Frederic Dunne. The title alludes to Dante's mountain of Purgatory. The story of a wandering youth, of his parents' deaths, of Cambridge and Columbia, and of a conversion lived as a homecoming, it became one of the most widely read religious books of the twentieth century and moved thousands of readers towards monastic life. In Britain it appeared abridged as Elected Silence (1949), with a foreword by Evelyn Waugh.
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English
Thomas Merton
The Seven Storey Mountain
The Conscious LibraryThe Seven Storey Mountain
SPCK, 2009
ISBN 9780281061709
Edición británica íntegra

The Seven Storey Mountain
Harcourt Brace, 1999
ISBN 0156010860

The Seven Storey Mountain (50th anniversary edition)
Harcourt Brace, 1998
ISBN 0151004137
Introducción de Robert Giroux
Thomas Merton
Elected Silence
The Conscious LibraryElected Silence
Hollis & Carter, 1949
Edición británica abreviada, prólogo de Evelyn Waugh
Thomas Merton
The Seven Storey Mountain
The Conscious LibraryThe Seven Storey Mountain
Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1948
Français
Thomas Merton
La nuit privée d'étoiles
The Conscious LibraryLa nuit privée d'étoiles
Albin Michel, 1951
Translation: Marie Tadié
Primera traducción francesa; sin ISBN por su fecha
Español
Thomas Merton
La montaña de los siete círculos
The Conscious LibraryLa montaña de los siete círculos
Editorial Sudamericana, 1955
Translation: Aquilino Tur
Traductor según el registro de Open Library
Thomas Merton
La montaña de los siete círculos
The Conscious LibraryLa montaña de los siete círculos
Sudamericana, 1998
ISBN 9789500713733
Thomas Merton
La montaña de los siete círculos
The Conscious LibraryLa montaña de los siete círculos
Porrúa, 2009
ISBN 9789700717326
Deutsch

Der Berg der sieben Stufen
Benziger, 1999
ISBN 9783545700062
Other works by Thomas Merton
- 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
- 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
- Early Essays, 1947–1952 · 2015
- 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
Sources
- Merton, Thomas. The Seven Storey Mountain. Nueva York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1948.
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