hermits

Susan Harris, a woman who lives in self-imposed seclusion, becomes the victim of an artificial intelligence that is obsessed with learning everything there is to know about the flesh.

Aging, reclusive author Vida Winter, having given out multiple versions of her life story over the years, decides to finally set the record straight and engages Margaret Lea, a London bookseller's daughter, to write her biography, drawing the young woman into a tale of a governess, a ghost, a willful woman, feral twins, and a gothic mansion.

A week after a crazy old man in the woods takes Josh's dirt bike, Josh decides to retrieve his bike from the old man he suspects is the hermit of Loggerman Creek.

A not quite human being exists alone in a remote Idaho cabin. When his mother is incapacitated, a young woman guesses part of the mystery and begins bringing him supplies.

While on a school field trip in Vietnam, a young boy climbs a mountain without finding the Buddhist hermit he is expecting to see, but later realizes that he has found much more.

Edmund Gravel, known as the Recluse of Lower Spigot, is preparing to take tea alone on Christmas Eve when he is visited by the Bahhum Bug, as well as three spectres who show him affecting, distressing, and heart-rending scenes.

When Andy loses his way in a snowstorm, Old Jasper, a hermit reputed to eat children for breakfast, is the one responsible for saving him.

A hermit lives on an island where he has peace and quiet, until a small bird comes to share the island with him, but when the bird leaves, the hermit realizes that his island was much better with the bird than without it.

A lonely boy is found and reared by a hermit in the wilderness of the Tennessee mountains in the 1880s.

Homer and Langley Collyer, two brothers, live as hermits after Langley returns from WWI, and as Homer goes blind, the two hoard newspapers and try to create meaning for themselves amid a series of visits from outsiders such as immigrants, prostitutes, government agents, and jazz musicians.