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CONNECTICUT OPINION; FALL IS THE SEASON FOR SUMMER'S READING

Relic, Peter D, Peter D. Relic is Superintendent of Schools in West Hartford

1986

Overview

You remember - vaguely - years ago, when you read Lawrence Durrell's ''Alexandria Quarter,'' Emile Zola's ''Germinal'' and all those Graham Greene novels, and all you need now is a nudge to return to their brilliant writing. Try Durrell's ''Dark Labyrinth,'' Zola's ''Therese Raquin'' and Greene's ''Tenth Man'' or ''Shades on Greene,'' a splendid volume of 18 short stories, from hilarious to macabre. You'll find Greene's ''This Gun for Hire'' which you might like better than thrillers by John LeCarre, or even Dashiell Hammett. You admire Benjamin Disraeli as Prime Minister of England? Remember he wrote political fiction, too, ''Coningsby'' and ''Sybil,'' novels of mystery and romance as well as social conditions and Tory politics. Read Russell Hoban's ''Turtle Diary'' before you see the movie, and I'll bet that, for 50 cents each, you can find Golda Meir's ''My Life,'' Barbara Ward's ''Nationalism and Ideology'' and Barbara Tuchman's '' Zimmerman Telegram.'' Of course, you've always intended to read Turgenev's ''Fathers and Sons,'' Fielding's ''Tom Jones,'' Hardy's ''Jude the Obscure,'' Hugo's ''Miserables''and Eliot's ''Adam Bede,'' and you won't pay more than a quarter for any of them at a sale.

• Publisher: New York Times Company
• Subject: BOOKS AND LITERATURE / Greene, Graham / READING / RELIC, PETER D