Planet of the Apes (Vintage Classics)

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.

Title: Planet of the Apes (Vintage Classics)

Author: Pierre Boulle

ISBN: 9780099529040

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Publisher: Vintage Publishing

Publication Date: 2011-05-05

Number of Pages: 208

Weight: 0.1588 kg

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? -- Tim Burton
The subtext is strongly anti-slavery, anti-racist and anti-war * Observer *