CONTENTS

CHAPTER 1
Monks and Rascals

CHAPTER 2
The Forging of a Solitary

CHAPTER 3
I to Myself (Henry David Thoreau)

CHAPTER 4
The Psychology of the Earth (Paul Cézanne)

CHAPTER 5
Formidably Alone (Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson)

CHAPTER 6
The Generosity of Bachelors (Henry James)

CHAPTER 7
All Serious Daring Begins Within (Eudora Welty)

CHAPTER 8
The Lover of God (Rabindranath Tagore)

CHAPTER 9
A Soundless Island in a Tideless Sea (Zora Neale Hurston)

CHAPTER 10
A Man Alone, A Single Woman (Rod McKuen and Nina Simone)

CHAPTER 11
Those Who Seek Beauty Will Find It (Bill Cunningham)

CHAPTER 12
From Loneliness to Solitude

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS AND THANKS

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