$24.44
- Paperback
208 pages
- Release Date
1 June 2011
Summary
A chilling dystopian vision of the ultimate role reversal, a cult hit since the 1960s.
Read the classic, chilling dystopian novel that inspired one of the world’s most iconic film franchises.
“A scintillating mix of sci-fi adventure and allegory.” - Los Angeles Times
In a spaceship that can travel at the speed of light, Ulysse, a journalist, sets off from Earth for the nearest solar system. There he finds Soror, a planet which resembles his own, but where humans behave…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099529040 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099529041 |
| Author: | Pierre Boulle |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 1 June 2011 |
| Weight: | 153g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 129mm x 13mm |
| Series: | Vintage Classics |
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Critics Review
A scintillating mix of sci-fi adventure and allegory
A scintillating mix of sci-fi adventure and allegory * Los Angeles Times *
In 1963, at the most glacial moment of the Cold War, Frenchman Pierre Boulle wrote a novel called Planet Of The Apes - a drastic warning about where mankind’s apparent desire to destroy itself might lead * The Mirror *
Boulle called on his own experiences as a prisoner of war in South-east Asia during the Second World War, using the relationship between man and apes as a metaphor for the treatment handed out to prisoners by brutish Japanese guards * Daily Express *
It’s like a good myth or fairy-tale that stays with you… Part of the strength of this material is its disruptive, questioning nature. Who came first? Where are we going?
The subtext is strongly anti-slavery, anti-racist and anti-war * Observer *
About The Author
Pierre Boulle
Pierre Boulle was born in 1912 at Avignon. Boulle spent the Second World War fighting in Yunnan, Calcutta and Indo-Chine, where he was captured by the Japanese. After the war he lived in Malaya, the Cameroons and, finally, Paris, where he settled until his death in 1994.
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