The complete online text of The Hermits by Charles Kingsley.

The English author and clergyman Charles Kingsley (1819-1875) became the ideal of "Muscular Christianity" through his books and active, many-faceted life. The son of a country parson, Charles Kingsley was born on June 12, 1819. After attending several sc...

Charles Kingsley is one of those prolific second-rank Victorian writers whose works have in recent years been undergoing marked reappraisal. Kingsley himself is a fascinating, because representative, Victorian figure with wide-ranging interests in religi...

The Reverend Charles Kingsley, writer of poetry; novels; historical works; sermons; religious tracts; scientific treatises; and political, social, and literary criticism, was one of the Victorian age's most prolific authors. His was by no means the stere...

IN FEBRUARY 1965 a refrigerator was delivered to Thomas Merton's hermitage. It bothered him: after all, he had spent many years hoping that his monastic superiors would allow him to live alone, and it did not seem right that a hermit should use...

A hermit is a spiced molasses cookie with raisins or nuts. It originated in New England 100 years ago when the great Cape Cod and islands clipper ships were sailing the trade routes of the world. It probably got its name, the hermit,...

As I was saying, I don’t go to Oprah Winfrey for the truth. I go to the theater instead. That fragile, fantastic thing we call the theater has always seemed to me to be the last place on earth where our stories can be truthfully...

As I was saying, I don’t go to Oprah Winfrey for the truth. I go to the theater instead. That fragile, fantastic thing we call the theater has always seemed to me to be the last place on earth where our stories can be truthfully...