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John Le Carre

9,145 words, approx. 31 pages

Biography EssayJohn le Carre (pseudonym of David John Moore Cornwell) is the author of realistic spy stories resembling those of Eric Ambler and Graham Greene. His best-known novels are The Spy Who C... Read more

John Le Carre

886 words, approx. 3 pages

The British author John Le Carre (born David Cornwell, 1931) was regarded by many as the foremost spy novelist of his time because his works go beyond being mere thrillers. They recreate the gritty re... Read more

John le Carré

5,984 words, approx. 20 pages

British novelist David Cornwell, writing under the pseudonym of John le Carré, is, according to Jason Cowley in New Statesman & Society, the "natural heir of Joseph Conrad and Graham Gr... Read more

John le Carre

13,483 words, approx. 45 pages

[This entry was updated by John L. Cobbs (Kutztown University) from the entry by Joan DelFattore (University of Delaware) in the Concise Dictionary of British Literary Biography, volume 8, pp. 212-227... Read more

Essays & Analysis (10)

Critical Essay by Mark Abley

209 words, approx. 1 pages

Critical Essay by Mark Abley With The Little Drummer Girl, le Carré has abandoned the polite chess game of the Cold War. He has plunged instead into a very hot and current struggle of hand gren... Read more

Critical Essay by Rael Jean Isaac and Erich Isaac

969 words, approx. 4 pages

Critical Essay by Rael Jean Isaac and Erich Isaac Apart from the rare scathing review, The Little Drummer Girl has won well-nigh universal praise. In some respects the praise is deserved, for the nove... Read more

Critical Essay by William F. Buckley, Jr.

850 words, approx. 3 pages

Critical Essay by William F. Buckley, Jr. The beginning of John le Carré's new book ["The Little Drummer Girl"] is, for a spy thriller, entirely orthodox: There is a bombin... Read more

Critical Essay by Melvyn Bragg

750 words, approx. 3 pages

Critical Essay by Melvyn Bragg [The Little Drummer Girl] is the third Le Carré novel which is exceedingly well-timed. The first was The Spy Who Came In From The Cold, which defined the Cold War... Read more

Critical Essay by Reginald Hill

525 words, approx. 2 pages

Critical Essay by Reginald Hill [In The Little Drummer Girl] Le Carré has moved right away from Smiley-land to the Middle East, from the Cold War to the passions of the Israeli-Arab conflict, f... Read more

Critical Essay by Martin Cruz Smith

487 words, approx. 2 pages

Critical Essay by Martin Cruz Smith Writing about Le Carré is chancy. Ever since 1962, when The Spy Who Came In from the Cold was published, he has been the standard by which other writers of t... Read more

Critical Essay by Thurston Davis

551 words, approx. 2 pages

Critical Essay by Thurston Davis [Le Carré's] new novel, which marks a sharp break away from the tortured world of George Smiley and his colleagues at the Circus, springs from the author... Read more

Critical Essay by James Wolcott

543 words, approx. 2 pages

Critical Essay by James Wolcott With The Little Drummer Girl, John le Carré has thrown off his winter cloak and let his limbs flex. Unlike the Smiley novels, which have a burrowing, circumspect... Read more

Critical Essay by David Pryce-jones

1,004 words, approx. 4 pages

Critical Essay by David Pryce-jones John Le Carré's thrillers have conveyed, as few others, the urgency of the struggle waged between East and West, between totalitarianism and democracy... Read more

Critical Essay by Marghanita Laski

590 words, approx. 2 pages

Critical Essay by Marghanita Laski [It] is not on being an excellent thriller-writer that John le Carré has gained the kind of superior acceptance that Marilyn Monroe has over Joan Blondell, bu... Read more

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