* David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens;
* Chinabound, by John K. Fairbank '29;
* The Country of Pointed Firs, by Sara Orne Jewett.
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David Layzer, Menzel Professor of Astrophysics, proposes:
* The Sense of Order, by Ernst Gombrich;
* The Growth of Biological Thought, by Ernst Mayr, professor of Zoology emeritus;
* Remembrance of Things Past, by Marcel Proust, the new Terence Kilmarton translation;
* Gorky Park, by Martin Cruz Smith;
* The Proud Tower, by Barbara Tuchman.
Layzer says that in his spare time this summer after writing a book on Cosmology, after starting a book on Chance and Order, after revising his course Science A-22 "Chance, Order, and Necessity," he will try to reread the Proust trilogy. He didn't comment on his work for the summer.
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Albert B. Lord '34, Porter Professor of Slavic and Comparative Literature, advises reading:
* The Book of Genesis, of the Bible;
* The Hiad and The Odyssey, by Homer;
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