Call for the Dead + A Murder of Quality + The Spy who came in from the Cold + The Looking-Glass War + A Small Town in Germany
by John le Carré
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A box set of John le Carrø's exceptional and thrilling first five novels, collected together for the first time:Call for the Dead
A Murder of Quality
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
The Looking Glass War
A Small Town in Germany
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Reading George Smiley novels (I have not read "A Small Town in Germany"):
**** "Call of the Dead" (read from April 13 to 16, 2013)
**** " A Murder of Quality" (read from April 16 to 19, 2013) - The ending was a little bit 'loose'.
*** "The Spy Who Came in from the Cold" (read from April 20 to 22, 2013)
** " The Looking Glass War" (read from April 22 to 28, 2013)
**** "Call of the Dead" (read from April 13 to 16, 2013)
**** " A Murder of Quality" (read from April 16 to 19, 2013) - The ending was a little bit 'loose'.
*** "The Spy Who Came in from the Cold" (read from April 20 to 22, 2013)
** " The Looking Glass War" (read from April 22 to 28, 2013)
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David John Moore Cornwell was born in Poole, Dorsetshire, England in 1931. He attended Bern University in Switzerland from 1948-49 and later completed a B.A. at Lincoln College, Oxford. He taught at Eton from 1956-58 and was a member of the British Foreign Service from 1959 to 1964. He writes espionage thrillers under the pseudonym John le Carré. show more The pseudonym was necessary when he began writing, in the early 1960s because, at that time, he held a diplomatic position with the British Foreign Office and was not allowed to publish under his own name. When his third book, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, became a worldwide bestseller in 1964, he left the foreign service to write full time. His other works include Call for the Dead; A Murder of Quality; Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy; The Honourable Schoolboy; and Smiley's People. He has received numerous awards for his writing, including the Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America in 1986 and the Diamond Dagger from the Crime Writers Association in 1988. In 2011 he accepted the Goethe Medal. And in 2020, he accepted the Olof Palme Prize. Ten of his books have been adapted for television and motion pictures including The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, The Russia House, The Constant Gardener, A Most Wanted Man, and Our Kind of Traitor. Le Carré's memoir, The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories from my Life, became a New York Times bestseller in 2016. In 2019, he published a spy thriller, Agent Running in the Field. John Le Carré died on December 12, 2020 from pneumonia at the age of 89. (Bowker Author Biography) John le Carre was born in 1931. After attending the univesities of Berne and Oxford, he spent five years in the British Foreign Service. He's the author of eighteen novels, translated into twenty-five languages. He lives in England. (Publisher Provided) show less
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- Canonical title
- Call for the Dead + A Murder of Quality + The Spy who came in from the Cold + The Looking-Glass War + A Small Town in Germany
- Alternate titles
- John le Carré Novels: Volume 1; John Le Carre Omnibus
- Original publication date
- 1961 (Call for the Dead) (Call for the Dead); 1962 (A Murder of Quality) (A Murder of Quality); 1963 (The Spy Who Came in From the Cold) (The Spy Who Came in From the Cold); 1965 (The Looking-Glass War) (The Looking-Glass War); 1968 (A Small Town in Germany) (A Small Town in Germany); 1979 (Collection) (Collection)
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