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WEST
GENERAL
Hermits: the Insights of Solitude (book) by Peter France.
A Pelican in the Wilderness: Hermits and Solitaries (book) by Isabel Colegate.
Philosophy of Renunciation East and West (article) by Erling Skorpen
ANCIENT & MEDIEVAL
The Rise and Function of the Holy Man in Late Antiquity (article) by Peter Brown.
Symbols of Marginality from Early Pythagoreans to Late Antique Monks (article) by J. N. Bremmer.
Historical Fact and Exegetical Fiction in the Carolingian
Vita S. Sualonis
(article) by Lynda Coon.
The Awesome Hermit: The Symbolic Significance of the Hermit as a Possible Research Perspective (article) by John Howe.
Eremitical Anthropology of William of St. Thierry (article) by John Conley.
The Hermits and Anchorites of England (book) by Rotha Mary Clay, and The English Mediaeval Recluse (book) by Francis D. S. Darwin.
Lives of the Anchoresses: The Rise of Urban Recluses in Medieval Europe (book) by Anneke B. Mulder-Bakker.
Upper Class Asceticism: Social Origins of Ascetic Movements and Medieval Saints (article) by Rodney Stark.
Anchorites and Their Patrons in Medieval England (book) by Ann K. Warren.
The Hermit in English Literature from the Beginnings to 1660 (book) by Charles P. Weaver.
The Forgotten Desert Mothers: Sayings, Lives, and Stories of Early Christian Women (book) by Laura Swan.
Harlots of the Desert: A Study of Repentance in Early Monastic Sources (book) by Benedicta Ward.
The Perfection of Solitude: Hermits and Monks in the Crusader States (book) by Andrew Jotischkey.
MODERN
The Language of Silence: the Changing Face of Monastic Solitude (book) by Peter-Damian Belisle.
An Infinity of Little Hours: Five Young Men and Their Trial of Faith in the Western World's Most Austere Monastic Order (book) by Nancy Klein Maguire.
The Maronite Eremitical Tradition: A Contemporary Revival (article) by G. Hourani.
Lost in the Taiga (book) by Vassily Peskov.
Maria of Olonets (book) by Bishop Nikodim of Belgorod
Flannery O'Connor, Hermit Novelist (book) by Richard Giannone.
EAST
CHINA
Road to Heaven: Encounters with Chinese Hermits (book) by Bill Porter.
Where the World Does Not Follow: Buddhist China in Picture and Poem (book) translations of T'ang poems by Chinese hermits by Mike O'Connor; photos by Steven R. Johnson.
The Changing Concept of the Recluse in Chinese Literature (article) by Li Chi.
The Nung-chia School of the Tillers and the Origins of Peasant Utopianism in China (article) by A. C. Graham
JAPAN
Four Huts: Asian Writings on the Simple Life (book) translations of Po-Chu'i, Yoshishige no Yasutane, Kamo no Chomei, and Basho by Burton Watson, illustrated by Stephen Addiss.
Reclusion and Poetry: Reconsidering Kamo no Chomei's
Hojoki
and >Hosshinshu (article) by Tamamura Kyo
The Holy Man's Hut as a Symbol of Stability in Japanese Buddhist Pilgrimage (article) by Mark MacWilliams
The Aesthetics of Discontent: Politics and Reclusion in Medieval Japanese Literature (book) by Michele Marra
The Politics of Reclusion: Painting and Power in Momoyama Japan (book) by Kendall H. Brown
INDIA & TIBET
The Hermits of Rishikesh (book) by Augusthy Keemattam.
Sadhus: India's Mystic Holy Men (book) by Dorf Hartsuiker. Photographic essay.
The Yogins of Ladakh: A Pilgrimage Among the Hermits of the Buddhist Himalayas (book) by John Crook and James Low.
Cave in the Snow: Tenzin Palmo's Quest for Enlightenment (book) by Vicki Mackenzie.
SOLITUDE
Solitude: A Philosophical Encounter (book) by Philip Koch
A Philosophy of Solitude (book) by John Cowper Powys
Solitude: A Return to the Self (book) by Anthony Storr
The World of Silence (book) by Max Picard
The Philosophy of Silence (book) by Alice Borchard Greene
The Ascetic Self: Subjectivity, Memory and Tradition (book) by Gavin Flood
The Value of Solitude: The Ethics and Spirituality of Aloneness in Autobiography (book) by John D. Barbour
Restless Souls: The Making of American Spirituality. Chapter 2: "Solitude" (book chapter) by Leigh Eric Schmidt
The Solace of Fierce Landscapes: Exploring Desert and Mountain Spirituality (book) by Belden C. Lane
The Greatest Escape: Adventures in the History of Solitude (book) by David Balcom.
Retreat: Time Apart for Silence and Solitude (book) by Roger Housden
Poustinia: Encountering God in Silence, Solitude, and Prayer (book) by Catherine de Hueck Doherty
SOLITUDE - SHORT REVIEWS
Psychology
The Call of Solitude: Alonetime in a World of Attachment, by Esther Schaler Buchholz & Migrations to Solitude, by Sue Halpern
Women & Solitude
Journal of a Solitude, by May Sarton
Fifty Days of Solitude, by Doris Grumbach
Listening Below the Noise, by Anne D. LeClaire
Drinking the Rain, by Alix Kates Shulman
Epicurean Simplicity, by Stephanie Mills
The Stations of Still Creek, by Barbara J. Scot
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, by Annie Dillard
Where God Begins to Be, by Karen Karper
Wind in the Sand: the Hidden Life of an Anchoress, by Pinions
The Wisdom of Solitude: a Zen Retreat in the Woods, by Jane Dobisz
Forty Days: Diary of a Traditional Solitary Sufi Retreat, by Michaela Ozelsel
Alone in the Temple: Solitude and Women poets (article) by Leslie Miller
Men & Solitude
Desolation Angels, by Jack Kerouac
Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness, by Edward Abbey
Solitude: Seeking Wisdom in Extremes - A Year Alone in the Patagonia Wilderness, by Robert Kull
A Hermit in the Himalayas, by Paul Brunton
Alone, by Richard E. Byrd
Into the Wild, by Jon Krakauer
Running to the Mountain: a Journey of Faith and Change, by Jon Katz
Stillness: Daily Gifts of Solitude, by Richard Mahler
Solitude in Literary Fiction
The Hermit (L'Solitaire), by Eugene Ionesco
Siddhartha, by Hermann Hesse
Notes From the Underground, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
HUTS & DWELLINGS
The idea of the hut
On Adam's House in Paradise: The Idea of the Primitive Hut in Architectural History, by Joseph Rykwert
A Hut of One's Own: Life Outside the Circle of Architecture, by Ann Cline
Heidegger's Hut, by Adam Sharr.
Hermit's hut, hermit's dream
A Place of One's Own: the Education of an Amateur Builder, by Michael Pollan
The Poetics of Space, by Gaston Bachelard
The Natural House, by Frank Lloyd Wright
SIMPLICITY
Economics of simplicity
Graceful Simplicity: Toward a Philosophy and Politics of Simple Living, by Jerome M. Segal.
Enchanting a Disenchanted World: Revolutionizing the Means of Consumption, by George Ritzer
Small is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered, by E. F. Schumacher
Versions of simplicity
Your Money or Your Life, by Joe Dominguez and Vicki Robin
The Holy Way: Practices for a Simple Life, by Paula Huston
A Quaker Book of Wisdom: Lessons in Simplicity, Service & Common Sense, by Robert Lawrence Smith
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