In Call for the Dead, Le Carré's debut novel, a key character is Hans-Dieter Mundt ( nicknamed " Blondie "), an assassin of the Abteilung, the East German Secret Service, who is working under diplomatic cover in London when uncovered by Circus agents George Smiley and Peter Guillam.

In her essay Is Common Human Decency a Scarce Commodity in Popular Literature ?, Margaret Compton contrasts the ending of The Spy Who Came in From the Cold with the ending of Call for the Dead: " Le Carré's début book ends with Smiley feeling deeply guilty about having killed Dieter Frey, the idealistic East German spy who had been Smiley's agent and friend ( and, in effect, his adopted son ) during the Second World War.

A dispassionate and careful reader of Le Carré's oeuvre can have little doubt that — though the writer clearly liked Smiley, and brought him back, again and again, until the very end of the Cold War — for the creator of both of them, Leamas's conduct stands on a higher moral level ”.

Le Carré's book won a 1963 Gold Dagger award from the British Crime Writers Association for " Best Crime Novel ".

In his espionage novels, author John Le Carré placed the headquarters of the fictionalised British intelligence service based on MI6 in buildings on Shaftesbury Avenue and Cambridge Circus ; it is from this that Le Carré's nickname for MI6, " The Circus ", derives.

McAdams is currently in Hamburg, Germany to film an adaptation of John Le Carré's espionage thriller A Most Wanted Man, directed by Anton Corbijn and co-starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Robin Wright and Willem Dafoe.

The Glienicke bridge as a venue for prisoner exchange has appeared frequently in fiction, most notably in John Le Carré's novel Smiley's People and the related BBC miniseries, as well as in the 1966 Harry Palmer film, Funeral in Berlin, based on the novel of the same name by Len Deighton.

Le Carré's biographer Lynndianne Beene describes Ronnie as ' an epic con man of little education, immense charm, extravagant tastes, but no social values '.

Le Carré's relationship with his father was troubled, and he has said

Matthew Bruccoli calls it " the book that is and may always be Le Carré's masterpiece ".

* Le charme discret de la bourgeoisie ( The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, 1972 ) explores the timidity instilled by middle-class values.

Tise Vahimagi, writing for the British Film Institute's Screenonline, agreed and commented that " it was the hesitant exchanges of one-upmanship between Le Mesurier's Wilson, a figure of delicate gentility, and Arthur Lowe's pompous, middle-class platoon leader Captain Mainwaring that added to its finest moments.

Marine Le Pen regularly denounces sharp rises in energy prices ( gas, gasoline, electricity ) which has " harmful consequences on the purchasing power of the working and middle-class families ".

Les trois filles de M. Dupont ( 1897 ) is a powerful, somewhat brutal, study of the miseries imposed on poor middle-class girls by the French system of dowry ; Le Résultat des courses ( 1898 ) shows the evil results of betting among the Parisian workmen ; La Robe rouge ( 1900 ) was directed against the injustices of the law ; Les Remplaçantes ( 1901 ) against the practice of putting children out to nurse.

And just like the city centre or the city at the core of an urban area, banlieues may be rich, middle-class or poor ; Versailles, Le Vésinet, Orsay and Neuilly-sur-Seine are affluent banlieues of Paris, while Clichy-sous-Bois is a poor one.

His less fantastic rivals include Le Carre's George Smiley and Harry Palmer as played by Michael Caine.

H. Oskar Sommer first put forth this theory in his 1890 edition of Le Morte d ' Arthur and Harvard Professor George Lyman Kittredge provided the evidence in 1896.

* Reginald, Robert, & Slusser, George, eds, Zephyr and Boreas: Winds of Change in the Fictions of Ursula K. Le Guin ( San Bernardino, CA: Borgo Press, 1997 )

* 1867: George Sand's Le Marquis de Villemer

George Wague: Le Mime de la Belle Epoque.

On Berlioz's return to Paris, a concert including Symphonie fantastique ( which had been extensively revised in Italy ) and Le retour à la vie was performed, with among others in attendance: Victor Hugo, Alexandre Dumas, Heinrich Heine, Niccolò Paganini, Franz Liszt, Frédéric Chopin, George Sand, Alfred de Vigny, Théophile Gautier, Jules Janin and Harriet Smithson.

( Stanley ’ s own son and heir, George Stanley, Lord Strange was married to Joan Le Strange whose mother was Jacquetta Woodville, the Queen ’ s sister ).

Although there is no record of literature about Sark in Sercquiais, Guernésiais and Jèrriais literature has included writing about Sark ; for example by such authors as Edwin John Luce, Thomas Grut, George F. Le Feuvre, and Denys Corbet.

Le Comte de Rochambeau, Jean Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, marched through and camped in the town during the American Revolutionary War on his way from landing at Narragansett Bay to join George Washington's forces on the Hudson River in 1781.

It is probable that in December 1753, George Washington, accompanied by Christopher Gist, pushed his way across Fox Chapel land as he came south from Fort Le Boeuf where he had delivered a letter to the French commander, ordering him, in the name of the Governor of Virginia, to return to Canada.

He first appeared as George Washington's guide during his journey from Logstown to Fort Le Boeuf in 1753.

Simon Le Bon from Duran Duran sang between contributions from George Michael and Sting.

These included 1, 000 British heavy dragoons ( 1st Cavalry Brigade ) led by John Le Marchant, 1, 000 British light dragoons ( 2nd Cavalry Brigade ) under George Anson, 700 Anglo-German light horse under Victor Alten, 800 King's German Legion ( KGL ) heavy dragoons led by George Bock and 500 Portuguese dragoons under Benjamin D ' Urban.

What a Lovely War ( 1969 ), co-starring Sir John Gielgud and Sir Laurence Olivier and directed by Richard Attenborough ; Justine ( 1969 ), directed by George Cukor ; Le Serpent ( 1973 ), co-starring Henry Fonda and Yul Brynner ; A Bridge Too Far ( 1977 ), in a controversial performance as Lieutenant General Frederick " Boy " Browning, also starring Sean Connery and an all-star cast and again directed by Richard Attenborough.

" is recorded at SARM Studios in Notting Hill, London, by a gathering of performers that includes Paul Young, Simon Le Bon, Bono, Phil Collins, Paul Weller, Sting, Boy George and Tony Hadley.

In 1957 Le Mesurier also had an uncredited role as a cook in The Admirable Crichton and portrayed a commanding officer in Herbert Wilcox's comedy musical These Dangerous Years, co-starring George Baker, Frankie Vaughan, Carole Lesley and Thora Hird.

In 1966 Le Mesurier also assumed the role of Colonel Maynard in the ITV series George and the Dragon, with Sid James and Peggy Mount.

Le Mesurier was unsure about taking the role, as he was finishing the final series of George and the Dragon, and did not want another long-term television role, but was reassured by both a rise in his fee — to £ 262 / 10s per episode — and when his old friend Clive Dunn was cast in the part of Corporal Jones.

* George Smiley, a fictional character from the popular book of John Le Carré, movie franchise who is said to work for MI6

* " If It Wasn't For The ' Ouses In Between " ( w. Edgar Bateman m. George Le Brunn )-Gus Elen on Berliner Gramophone

* " It's A Great Big Shame " ( w. Edgar Bateman m. George Le Brunn )-Gus Elen on Berliner Gramophone

* " It's A Great Big Shame " w. Edgar Bateman m. George Le Brunn

Smiley was absent in the three Le Carré novels of the 1980s.

Le Carré introduced Smiley at about the same time as Len Deighton's unnamed anti-hero ( Harry Palmer in the movie versions ).

In March 2010, while giving a talk on his life and works at the Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford, Le Carré responded to a question concerning what became of Smiley by telling the audience that although he would like to think of Smiley as a Sherlock Holmesian figure, never having really retired, he acknowledged that to his mind, the character would now be " very old and getting past-certainly in his nineties ".

Le Carré envisaged Smiley now to be " keeping bees somewhere ", still alive but very much retired.

Le Carré denied the rumours, citing the fact that Oldfield and he were not contemporaries, although he and Alec Guinness lunched with Oldfield when Guinness was researching the role of Smiley, and several of Oldfield's mannerisms of dress and behaviour were adopted by the actor for his performance.

The climax of John Le Carre's novel The Honourable Schoolboy ( the second in the ' Karla trilogy ', featuring George Smiley ) takes place on Po Toi.

As part of a series of dramatisation of Le Carre's work, the " Complete Smiley " series, BBC Radio produced a radio play of The Looking Glass War in 2009.