The Honourable Schoolboy by John le Carre Summary Study Guide
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1. Our Game
By: John Le Carré
3.70
Format: 414 pages, Mass Market Paperback
At forty-eight, Tim Cranmer is a secret servant in a premature retirement to deepest rural England.… read more
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"A dead man is the worst enemy alive, I thought. You can't alter his power over you. You can't alter what you love or owe. And it's too late to ask him for his absolution. He has beaten you all ways."-John Le Carré, Our Game
2. The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
By: Raymond Chandler
3.95
Format: 231 pages, Paperback
When a dying millionaire hires Philip Marlowe to handle the blackmailer of one of his two troubleso… read more
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"Parecía más muerto que muchos cadáveres"-Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
"Dead men are heavier than broken hearts."-Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
"I was as empty of life as a scarecrow's pockets."-Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
"Just keep your nose clean and everything will be jake."-Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
3. The Tailor of Panama
By: John Le Carré
3.51
Format: 332 pages, Hardcover
Le Carré's Panama—the young country of 2.5 million souls which, on December 31, 1999, will gain ful… read more
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"And we dress, sir --?" he murmured, feeling Osnard's gaze burning the nape of his neck. "Most of my gentlemen seem to favour left these days. I don't think it's political." This was his standard joke…"-John Le Carré, The Tailor of Panama
4. The Honourable Schoolboy (George Smiley, #6; Karla Trilogy, #2)
By: John Le Carré
3.99
Format: 589 pages, Paperback
John le Carré's classic novels deftly navigate readers through the intricate shadow worlds of inter… read more
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"Let's die of it before we're too old."-John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy (George Smiley, #6; Karla Trilogy, #2)
"Home's where you go when you run out of homes."-John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy (George Smiley, #6; Karla Trilogy, #2)
"A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world."-John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy (George Smiley, #6; Karla Trilogy, #2)
"Yet it's not for want of future that I'm here, he thought. It's for want of a present."-John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy (George Smiley, #6; Karla Trilogy, #2)
5. The Third Man
By: Graham Greene
3.79
Format: 157 pages, Paperback
Rollo Martins' usual line is the writing of cheap paperback Westerns under the name of Buck Dexter.… read more
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"I loved a man," she said. "I told you—a man doesn't alter because you find out more about him. He's still the same man."-Graham Greene, The Third Man
"Marlowe's devils wore squibs attached to their tails: evil was like Peter Pan—it carried with it the horrifying and horrible gift of eternal youth."-Graham Greene, The Third Man
"For God's sake stop making people in your image. Harry was real. He wasn't just your hero and my lover. He was Harry. He was in a racket. He did bad things. What about it? He was the man we knew."-Graham Greene, The Third Man
"tea. He watched her while she made it, made it, of course, all wrong: the water not on the boil, the teapot unheated, too few leaves. She said, "I never quite understand why English people like teas …"-Graham Greene, The Third Man
6. A Legacy of Spies (George Smiley, #9)
By: John Le Carré
3.88
Format: 264 pages, Hardcover
Peter Guillam, staunch colleague and disciple of George Smiley of the British Secret Service, other… read more
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"When the truth finally catches up to you, don't be a hero and run."-John Le Carré, A Legacy of Spies (George Smiley, #9)
"شما همه مریض هستید. شما جاسوس‌ها. شماها درمان درد نیستید، خود مرض هستید. هنرمندان ارضای خودتان هستید. بازی‌تان هم برای ارضای خودتان است. ولی پیش خودتان خیال می‌کنید بزرگ‌ترین عقلای کوفتی جهان شماهایی…"-John Le Carré, A Legacy of Spies (George Smiley, #9)
"خب، بالاخره وقت حساب پس دادن است. بالاخره وقتش رسیده برای سوال‌های سخت جواب‌های سرراست بگیرم. سوالاتی مثل جورج، آیا تو آگاهانه انسانیت را در من سرکوب کردی، یا من هم جزء عوارض جانبی بودم؟ یا مثل انسان…"-John Le Carré, A Legacy of Spies (George Smiley, #9)
7. The Night Manager
By: John Le Carré
4.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
In the shadowy recesses of Whitehall and Washington an unholy alliance operates between the intelli… read more
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8. The Honourable Schoolboy by John le Carre Summary Study Guide
By: BookRags
4.03
Format: 453 pages,
This study guide by BookRags.com, consists of approx. 60 pages of chapter summaries, character anal… read more
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9. A Delicate Truth
By: John Le Carré
3.31
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Gibraltar, 2008. A counter-terror operation, codenamed Wildlife, is being mounted in Britain's most… read more
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10. Our Man in Havana
By: Graham Greene
3.00
Format: 50 pages, Paperback
Mr. Wormold, a vacuum cleaner salesman in a city of powercuts, becomes a spy to earn extra income. read more
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11. Smiley's People
By: John Le Carré
3.33
Format: 170 pages, Paperback
John le Carre's classic novels deftly navigate readers through the intricate shadow worlds of inter… read more
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12. Imperium (Cicero, #1)
By: Robert Harris
4.13
Format: 305 pages, Hardcover
When Tiro, the confidential secretary (and slave) of a Roman senator, opens the door to a terrified… read more
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"What a terrible audit Death lays upon a man."-Robert Harris, Imperium (Cicero, #1)
"Few subjects make more tedious reading than happiness."-Robert Harris, Imperium (Cicero, #1)
"Since when has idiocy been a bar to advancement in politics?"-Robert Harris, Imperium (Cicero, #1)
"Tak usah cemas, akan banyak waktu untuk tidur setelah kita mati."-Robert Harris, Imperium (Cicero, #1)
13. A Murder of Quality
By: John Le Carré
3.64
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
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14. The Quiet American
By: Graham Greene , Robert Stone
3.13
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Graham Greene's classic exploration of love, innocence, and morality in Vietnam "I never knew a man… read more
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15. The Power and the Glory
By: John Updike , Graham Greene
3.13
Format: 192 pages,
How does goodspoil, and how can badbe redeemed? In his penetrating novel The Power and the Glory, G… read more
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16. The Heart of the Matter
By: Graham Greene
3.13
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Scobie is a highly principled officer in a war-torn West African state. When he is passed over for … read more
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17. Call for the Dead (George Smiley, #1)
By: John Le Carré
3.94
Format: 456 pages, Paperback
John le Carre classic novels deftly navigate readers through the intricate shadow worlds of interna… read more
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18. The Secret Pilgrim
By: John Le Carré
3.94
Format: 456 pages, Paperback
Nothing is as it was. Old enemies embrace. The dark staging grounds of the Cold War--whose shadows … read more
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19. The Naive and Sentimental Lover
By: John Le Carré
3.48
Format: 241 pages, Paperback
Aldo Cassidy is the naive and sentimental lover. A successful, judicious man, he is wrenched away f… read more
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20. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (George Smiley, #5; Karla Trilogy, #1)
By: John Le Carré
4.06
Format: 381 pages, Paperback
A modern classic in which John le Carré expertly creates a total vision of a secret world, Tinker, … read more
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"As a good Socialist, I'm going for the money."-John Le Carré, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (George Smiley, #5; Karla Trilogy, #1)
"Treason is very much a matter of habit, Smiley decided."-John Le Carré, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (George Smiley, #5; Karla Trilogy, #1)
"Good intelligence work, Control had always preached, was gradual and rested on a kind of gentleness."-John Le Carré, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (George Smiley, #5; Karla Trilogy, #1)
"The monstrosity of this, reaching Smiley through a thickening wall of spiritual exhaustion, left him momentarily speechless."-John Le Carré, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (George Smiley, #5; Karla Trilogy, #1)
21. The Russia House
By: John Le Carré
4.12
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
John le Carre's bestselling classic is a timeless spy thriller about the Iron Curtain and the tense… read more
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22. The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
By: John Le Carré
3.94
Format: 322 pages, Paperback
In this classic, John le Carre's third novel and the first to earn him international acclaim, he cr… read more
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23. The Looking Glass War
By: John Le Carré
3.62
Format: None pages, Paperback
John le Carre's classic novels deftly navigate readers through the intricate shadow worlds of inter… read more
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24. The Little Drummer Girl
By: John Le Carré
3.76
Format: None pages, Paperback
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25. A Perfect Spy
By: John Le Carré
3.76
Format: None pages, Paperback
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26. The Constant Gardener
By: John Le Carré
3.82
Format: 482 pages, Paperback
Now a major motion picture from Fernando Meirelles, the Academy Award-nominated director of City of… read more
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"He sees passion in her gray eyes, and it scares him as all passion scares him, his own included."-John Le Carré, The Constant Gardener
"Pain observed is journalistic pain. It's diplomatic pain. It's television pain, over as soon as you switch off your beastly set."-John Le Carré, The Constant Gardener
"You're history, Donohue. You think countries run the fucking world! Go back to fucking Sunday school. It's 'God save our multinational' they're singing these days."-John Le Carré, The Constant Gardener
"I do not betray the confidence of friends and I require you to respect that fact and admire me for it. Enormously and all the time. Where secrets are concerned, compared to me, the grave is a chatter…"-John Le Carré, The Constant Gardener
27. Conspirata (Cicero, #2)
By: Robert Harris
4.33
Format: 201 pages, Hardcover
- Internationally bestselling author: "Imperium" was hailed as "quite possibly Harris's most accomp… read more
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28. The Day of the Jackal
By: Frederick Forsyth
4.27
Format: 358 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found here. The Jackal. A tall, blond… read more
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"It is cold at six-forty in the morning on a March day in Paris, and seems even colder when a man is about to be executed by firing squad."-Frederick Forsyth, The Day of the Jackal
29. All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy, #1)
By: Cormac McCarthy
4.00
Format: 592 pages,
All the Pretty Horsestells of young John Grady Cole, the last of a long line of Texas ranchers. Acr… read more
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30. Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
By: Cormac McCarthy
4.16
Format: 351 pages, Paperback
Blood Meridian is an epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expa… read more
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"See the child."-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
"If war is not holy man is nothing but antic clay."-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
"Here beyond men's judgments all covenants were brittle."-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
"There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road thereto."-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
31. Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
By: Chris Miller
4.44
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
An epic account of the decades-long battle to control what has emerged as the world's most critical… read more
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"Comrade, we have built the world’s biggest microprocessor!"-Chris Miller, Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
