John le Carré’s Best Books

Le Carré (1931-2020) saw himself this way, a bohemian prig and a priggish bohemian. His father, Ronald Cornwell, was a louche West Country con man and rake whose sins le Carré longed to expiate and dreaded repeating. Of the great German dramatists (Schiller, Goethe, Kleist, Büchner), le Carré wrote, “I

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