Carre White Popular Books

Carre White Biography & Facts

This is a list of works by or featuring David John Moore Cornwell, a British author better known by his pseudonym John le Carré. It also includes a list of film, television, and radio adaptations of le Carré's writing. Novels Call for the Dead (1961), OCLC 751303381 A Murder of Quality (1962), OCLC 777015390 The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1963), OCLC 561198531 The Looking Glass War (1965), OCLC 752987890 A Small Town in Germany (1968), ISBN 0-143-12260-6 The Naïve and Sentimental Lover (1971), ISBN 0-143-11975-3 Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1974), ISBN 0-143-12093-X The Honourable Schoolboy (1977), ISBN 0-143-11973-7 Smiley's People (1979), ISBN 0-340-99439-8 The Little Drummer Girl (1983), ISBN 0-143-11974-5 A Perfect Spy (1986), ISBN 0-143-11976-1 The Russia House (1989), ISBN 0-743-46466-4 The Secret Pilgrim (1990), ISBN 0-345-50442-9 The Night Manager (1993), ISBN 0-345-38576-4 Our Game (1995), ISBN 0-345-40000-3 The Tailor of Panama (1996), ISBN 0-345-42043-8 Single & Single (1999), ISBN 0-743-45806-0 The Constant Gardener (2001), ISBN 0-743-28720-7 Absolute Friends (2003), ISBN 0-670-04489-X The Mission Song (2006), ISBN 0-340-92199-4 A Most Wanted Man (2008), ISBN 1-416-59609-7 Our Kind of Traitor (2010), ISBN 0-143-11972-9 A Delicate Truth (2013), ISBN 0-143-12531-1 A Legacy of Spies (2017), ISBN 978-0-735-22511-4 Agent Running in the Field (2019), ISBN 1984878875 Silverview (2021), ISBN 9780241550069 (posthumous publication) George Smiley omnibus volumes The Incongruous Spy (1964), containing Call for the Dead and A Murder of Quality, OCLC 851437951 The Quest for Karla (1982), containing Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, The Honourable Schoolboy and Smiley's People (republished in 1995 as Smiley Versus Karla in the UK; and John Le Carré: Three Complete Novels in the U.S.), ISBN 0-394-52848-4 Short stories "Dare I Weep, Dare I Mourn?" (1967), in Saturday Evening Post, 28 January 1967 "What Ritual is Being Observed Tonight?" (1968), in Saturday Evening Post, 2 November 1968 "The Writer and the Horse" (published in the US as "A Writer and A Gentleman") (1968), in The Savile Club Centenary Magazine and later in The Argosy and The Saturday Review (November 30, 1968) "The King Who Never Spoke" (2009), in Ox-Tales: Fire, 2 July 2009 Non-fiction The Good Soldier (1991), collected in Granta 35: The Unbearable Peace The United States Has Gone Mad (2003), collected in Not One More Death (2006), ISBN 1-844-67116-X Afterword (2014), an essay on Kim Philby, published in A Spy Among Friends by Ben Macintyre The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories from My Life (2016), ISBN 978-0-241-97687-6 A Private Spy: The Letters of John le Carré 1945-2020 (2022), ISBN 978-0241550090 Film Screenplays Source(s): End of the Line (1970) Smiley's People (1982) with John Hopkins A Murder of Quality (1991) The Tailor of Panama (2001), with John Boorman and Andrew Davies Executive producer Source(s): The Tailor of Panama (2001) Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011) A Most Wanted Man (2014) The Night Manager (2016) Our Kind of Traitor (2016) The Little Drummer Girl (2018) Actor Source(s): The Little Drummer Girl (1984), as David Cornwell Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011), as John le Carré- as participant at the Christmas party. The Night Manager (2016), as David Cornwell - as the offended guest at a restaurant. Our Kind of Traitor (2016) - as a ticket seller at the museum. The Little Drummer Girl (2018) Adaptations After many years of working with various producers who made film adaptations of his novels, two of Cornwell's sons, Simon and Stephen, founded the production company The Ink Factory in 2010. This was to produce adaptations of his works as well as other film productions. The Ink Factory has produced the films A Most Wanted Man and Our Kind of Traitor, and the TV series The Night Manager and The Little Drummer Girl. Film Source(s): The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965), directed by Martin Ritt, with Richard Burton as the protagonist, Alec Leamas The Deadly Affair (1967), an adaptation of Call for the Dead, directed by Sidney Lumet, with James Mason as Charles Dobbs (George Smiley in the novel) The Looking Glass War (1970), directed by Frank Pierson, with Anthony Hopkins as Avery, Christopher Jones as Leiser, and Sir Ralph Richardson as LeClerc The Little Drummer Girl (1984), directed by George Roy Hill, with Diane Keaton as Charlie The Russia House (1990), directed by Fred Schepisi, with Sean Connery as Barley Blair The Tailor of Panama (2001), directed by John Boorman, with Pierce Brosnan as Andy Osnard, a disgraced spy, and Geoffrey Rush as the emigre English tailor Harry Pendel The Constant Gardener (2005), directed by Fernando Meirelles, with Ralph Fiennes as Justin Quayle, set in the slums in Kibera and Loiyangalani, Kenya; the poverty so affected the film crew that they established the Constant Gardener Trust to provide basic education to those areas (John le Carré was a patron of the charity) Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011), directed by Tomas Alfredson and starring Gary Oldman as George Smiley A Most Wanted Man (2014), directed by Anton Corbijn and starring Philip Seymour Hoffman Our Kind of Traitor (2016), directed by Susanna White and starring Ewan McGregor Radio The Russia House (1994), BBC Radio 4, featuring Tom Baker as Barley Blair The Complete Smiley (2009–2010) BBC Radio 4, an eight-part radio-play series, based on the novels featuring George Smiley, commencing with Call for the Dead, broadcast on 23 May 2009, with Simon Russell Beale as George Smiley, and concluding with The Secret Pilgrim in June 2010 A Delicate Truth (May 2013), BBC Radio 4's Book at Bedtime, recorded by Damian Lewis Abridged excerpts from The Pigeon Tunnel, broadcast as BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week, commencing on 12 September 2016 Television Source(s): Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1979), BBC seven-part television series, with Alec Guinness as George Smiley Smiley's People (1982), BBC television series, with Alec Guinness as George Smiley A Perfect Spy (1987), BBC television adaptation directed by Peter Smith, with Peter Egan as Magnus Pym and Ray McAnally as Rick A Murder of Quality (1991), Thames Television adaptation directed by Gavin Millar, with Denholm Elliott as George Smiley and Joss Ackland as Terence Fielding The Night Manager (2016), BBC and AMC series, adapted by screenwriter David Farr and directed by Susanne Bier, with Tom Hiddleston as Jonathan Pine and Hugh Laurie as Richard Onslow Roper The Little Drummer Girl (2018), BBC and AMC series, directed by Park Chan-wook, with Florence Pugh as Charlie Ross, Michael Shannon as Martin Kurtz, and Alexander Skarsgård as Gadi Becker. References. Discover the Carre White popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Carre White books.

Best Seller Carre White Books of 2024

  • An Education synopsis, comments

    An Education

    John Walshe

    'Fascinating' Fintan O'Toole, Irish Times'It's a fascinating book. I ended up reading it till about four in the morning. It gives an incredible insight.' Shane Coleman, political e...

  • The Hound of the Baskervilles synopsis, comments

    The Hound of the Baskervilles

    Arthur Conan Doyle

    When Sir Charles Baskerville is found mysteriously dead in the grounds of Baskerville Hall, everyone remembers the legend of the monstrous creature that haunts the moor. The great ...

  • The Man Who Was Thursday synopsis, comments

    The Man Who Was Thursday

    G. K. Chesterton

    Can you trust yourself when you don't know who you are? In a park in London, secret policeman Gabriel Syme strikes up a conversation with an anarchist. Sworn to do his duty, Syme u...

  • The Secret Life of John le Carre synopsis, comments

    The Secret Life of John le Carre

    Adam Sisman

    The extraordinary secret life of a great novelist, which his biographer could not publish while le Carré was alive.Secrecy came naturally to John le Carré, and there were some secr...

  • The White People and Other Weird Stories synopsis, comments

    The White People and Other Weird Stories

    Arthur Machen

    Machen's weird tales of the creepy and fantastic finally come to Penguin Classics. With an introduction from S.T. Joshi, editor of American Supernatural Tales, The White People and...