Description:  This much needed authoritative text of Bleak House is the first to be established by a comparative study of all surviving versions of Dickens' novel, incorporating evidence from the original manuscript and corrected proofs.  Study of the genesis of the novel is facilitated by the reproduction of Dickens' working plans and, for the first time, by some thousands of meticulous textual notes.

Description:  If each previous Le Carré novel has redefined and illuminated its predecessor, so Smiley's People delivers the summation to the whole body of his espionage fiction up till now.  A Russian émigré woman in Paris is accosted in broad daylight by a Soviet intelligence officer.  A scared Estonian boy plays courier in Hamburg.  In London at dead of night, George Smiley is summoned from his lonely bed by news of the murder of an ex-agent.