Franklin Library: JOHN LE CARRE: THE HONOURABLE SCHOOLBOY: HONG KONG

Description: Franklin Library leather edition of John le Carre's "The Honourable Schoolboy," a Limited edition, Illustrated by Ben F. Wohlberg, one of the FIRST EDITION SOCIETY series, with a facsimile signature by John Le Carre, published in 1977. Bound in tan leather, the book has moire silk end leaves, satin book marker, hubbed spine, acid-free paper, gold gilt on three edges---in near FINE condition. David J.M. Cornwell (also know as John le Carre, his artistic pseudonym) was born in 1931, in Poole, a coastal town in the county of Dorset, in England. He has revolutionized the spy fiction genre, creating his own niche and his own legion of followers and imitators. None of those who tried to replicate his style, however, were able to recreate the same fusion of suspense, analytic skills, rhythm and irony that the great English writer produces in each and every book. In a 'special message,' le Carre wrote: "To write this tale I took myself to a sub-continent which I had never visited befre---South East Asia. I had two preoccupations and little else. The first was the character of JERRY WESTERBY, who had had a walk-on part in "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy" as a hard-drinking journalist and secret agent whom GEORGE SMILEY discreetly interrogated. . .I liked Jerry very much. He was a down-at-the heel patriot, a sportsman, a lover of some sort, a hardy loser and a very respectable agent. My second preconception concerned Hong Kong. I had never been to a British colony before. . . Hong Kong is still, absurdly, a very English place. Once I had the man, and his springboard, then like Jerry i set out on a series of small Odysseys." Le Carre quotes W.H. Auden who wrote: "I and the public know/ What all schoolchildren learn,/ Those to whom evil is done/ Do evil in return." 546 pages. I offer combined shipping.

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