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• Eccentrics and eccentricities

• Hermits

• Recluses -- Massachusetts
• Recluses -- Pennsylvania
• Recluses -- Rhode Island

• Life and Adventures of Robert, the Hermit of Massachusetts (Providence: Printed for H. Trumbull, 1829), by Henry Trumbull and Robert Voorhis (illustrated HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)

• Life and Adventures of Robert, the Hermit of Massachusetts (Providence: Printed for H. Trumbull, 1829), by Henry Trumbull and Robert Voorhis (illustrated HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)

• The Pennsylvania Hermit: A Narrative of the Extraordinary Life of Amos Wilson, Who Expired in a Cave in the Neighborhood of Harrisburgh (Penn.), After Having Therein Lived in Solitary Retirement for the Space of Nineteen Years, in Consequence of the Ignominious Death of His Sister (Philadelphia: Smith and Carpenter, 1839) (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Pennsylvania Hermit: A Narrative of the Extraordinary Life of Amos Wilson, Who Expired in a Cave in the Neighborhood of Harrisburgh (Penn.), After Having Therein Lived in Solitary Retirement for the Space of Nineteen Years, in Consequence of the Ignominious Death of His Sister (Philadelphia: Smith and Carpenter, 1839) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Life and Adventures of Robert, the Hermit of Massachusetts (Providence: Printed for H. Trumbull, 1829), by Henry Trumbull and Robert Voorhis (illustrated HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• The Hermits (London and New York: Macmillan and Co., 1891), by Charles Kingsley (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Homo Sum, by Georg Ebers, trans. by Clara Bell (Gutenberg text)

• Thais, by Anatole France, trans. by Robert B. Douglas (Gutenberg text)

• The Temptation of St. Anthony (New York and Seattle: A. Harriman Co., 1910), by Gustave Flaubert, trans. by Lafcadio Hearn (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Temptation of St. Anthony: or, A Revelation of the Soul (v7 of a collection of his works; Chicago: S. P. Magee, c1904), by Gustave Flaubert (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)

• The Outdoor Girls at Wild Rose Lodge, by Laura Lee Hope (Gutenberg text)
• The Trinity Flower and Other Stories (Boston: L.C. Page and Co., 1896), by Juliana Horatia Ewing (page images at HathiTrust)

• Unhuman Tour (Kusamakura) (Tokyo: Japan Times, ca. 1927), by Sōseki Natsume, trans. by Kazutomo Takahashi (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Unknown Immortals in the Northern City of Success (Dublin: Talbot Press; London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1917), by Herbert Moore Pim
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• A Gallery of Eccentrics (c1928), by Morris Bishop (illustrated HTML with commentary at elfinspell.com)

• Memoirs of the Lady Hester Stanhope, As Related by Herself in Conversations With Her Physician (3 volumes; London: H. Colburn, 1845), by Hester Stanhope, ed. by Charles Lewis Meryon (page images at HathiTrust)

• Think of the Earth (c1936), by Bertram Brooker (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Hadrian the Seventh (New York: A. A. Knopf, c1925), by Frederick Rolfe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wickford Point (c1939), by John P. Marquand (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)

• Memoirs of the Lady Hester Stanhope, As Related by Herself in Conversations With Her Physician (3 volumes; London: H. Colburn, 1845), by Hester Stanhope, ed. by Charles Lewis Meryon (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Life and Letters of Lady Hester Stanhope (London: J. Murray, 1914), by Catherine Lucy Wilhelmina Powlett Cleveland, contrib. by Hester Stanhope and Archibald Philip Primrose Rosebery (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Circe of the Deserts (London: Hurst and Blackett, n.d.), by Paule Henry-Bordeaux (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century (New York: Dutton, 1903), by W. H. Davenport Adams
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
• Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century (ninth edition; London: Swan Sonnenschein and Co., 1906), by W. H. Davenport Adams (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century (1902), by George Paston (Gutenberg text)
• Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century (London: Grant Richards; New York: E.P. Dutton and Co., 1902), by George Paston
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Travels of Lady Hester Stanhope; Forming the Completion of Her Memoirs, Narrated by Her Physician (3 volumes; London: H. Colburn, 1846), by Hester Stanhope, ed. by Charles Lewis Meryon
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org

• Looking for Bobowicz: A Hoboken Chicken Story (read by the author in its entirety; c2004), by Daniel Manus Pinkwater (MP3 files (select this title from the "choose a book" menu) at pinkwater.com)