Keep calm and read on… in isolation: Seven books for solitude

SINGAPORE – "Nuns fret not at their convent's narrow room," wrote the poet William Wordsworth, "And hermits are contented with their cells." Should what Wordsworth calls "the weight of too much liberty" – or rather, concerns about catching the coronavirus – drive you to seek solace in solitude, here are seven books about fictional lives in isolation to keep you company.

By Shirley Jackson

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SINGAPORE – "Nuns fret not at their convent's narrow room," wrote the poet William Wordsworth, "And hermits are contented with their cells." Should what Wordsworth calls "the weight of too much liberty" – or rather, concerns about catching the coronavirus – drive you to seek solace in solitude, here are seven books about fictional lives in isolation to keep you company.

By Shirley Jackson

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