George Smiley, of England's Secret Service, goes onto the attack, manipulating old Asian hand Jerry Westerby through the Far East and a tangle of money, defection, passion, loyalty and love that severely tests Westerby's hitherto ...
Author: John Le Carré
Publisher: Penguin Books
ISBN: 0143119737
Category: Fiction
Page: 533
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The honourable schoolboy had left, she said. He wore his suit. He carried a grip, his typewriter and the book-sack. Franco had taken him to the airport in the van. The orphan had gone with them but only as far as the sliproad to the ...
Author: John le Carré
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 9780241322369
Category: Fiction
Page: 704
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CHAPTER EIGHT Cold War in the Wings The Honourable Schoolboy Sandwiched between two “ Smiley ” novels that are clearly more artistically successful — Tinker , Tailor , Soldier , Spy and Smiley's People — and having a far more tenuous ...
Author: John L. Cobbs
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN: 1570031681
Category: Literary Criticism
Page: 297
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1 THE HONOURABLE SCHOOLBOY " is bound to hit the top with predictable ease . Little wonder . Le Carré has developed the technique of the espionage thriller to a level where he has been called , without stretching the comparison and ...
Author: John Le Carré
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ISBN: 0553141112
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Page: 532
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Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy, 36. It was only in 1898 that the lease agreement of 99 years was signed. See Steve Tsang, A Modern History of Hong Kong (New York: I. B. Taurus, 2007), 37–38. Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy, 215.
Author: Sam Goodman
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781317678946
Category: Literary Criticism
Page: 186
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Richly detailed, politically saturated and inventively plotted, The Honourable Schoolboy (1977), the second, overlooked, part of the Karla trilogy, deserves to be better known, occupying the anomalous position of a forgotten bestseller: ...
Author: Toby Manning
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 9781350036413
Category: Literary Criticism
Page: 256
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These are, respectively, The Honourable Schoolboy (1977) and Highways to a War (1995). The second volume in Le Carré's “Karla Trilogy”, The Honourable Schoolboy at ...
Author: Milton Osborne
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780199711734
Category: Travel
Page: 256
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Smiley's world is one in which the fantasies and beliefs of schoolboys and of golly-goshing Peter Pans such as the honourable schoolboy Westerby, will inevitably come to grief. Smiley's long decline into despair began very early, ...
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He branded The Honourable Schoolboy 'tedious' and its prose style as 'overblown'. Le Carré's new novel is about twice as long as it should be. It falls with a dull thud into the second category of le Carré's books – those which are ...
Author: Adam Sisman
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 9781408849446
Category: Biography & Autobiography
Page: 672
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( Schoolboy 4445 ) In this 1977 work , John le Carre depicts Smiley's rededication to the Service after the repeated ... In a manner characteristic of le Carre's novels , The Honourable Schoolboy offers at this point a number of ...
Author: David B. Downing
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 0791407152
Category: Philosophy
Page: 349
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