With his customary wit, irony, and disciplined intellect and style, the author of The Bridge Over the River Kwai tells a swiftly moving story dealing with man's conflicts, and takes the reader into a suspenseful and strangely fascinating orbit.' Translated by Xan Fielding. Out of this situation, Pierre Boulle has woven a tale as harrowing, bizarre, and meaningful as any in the brilliant roster of this master storyteller. Only the journalist retains the spiritual strength and creative intelligence to try to save himself, to fight the appalling scourge, to remain a man. The scientist is put into a zoo, the journalist into a laboratory. To this planet come a journalist and a scientist. On the planet of the apes, man, having reached to apotheosis of his genius, has become inert. In this simian world, civilization is turned upside down: apes are men and men are apes apes rule and men run wild apes think, speak, produce, wear clothes, and men are speechless, naked, exhibited at fairs, used for biological research. Lord have pity on us!' With these words, Pierre Boulle hurtles the reader onto the Planet of the Apes. 'I am confiding this manuscript to space, not with the intention of saving myself, but to help, perhaps, to avert the appalling scourge that is menacing the human race. Planet of the Apes Vanguard Press 1963 1st ed. A series reboot with a new production team called Rise of the Planet of the Apes was released in 2011 to critical and commercial success.

A second adaptation of the book was released in 2001 directed by Tim Burton as a loose remake of the 1968 film of the same name. The film was a critical and commercial success, spawning four sequels between 19. Schaffner from a screenplay by Michael Wilson & Rod Serling and starring Charlton Heston.

The first film was Planet of the Apes (1968), directed by Franklin J. Boulle's novel inspired a media franchise comprising eight films, two television series, and several comic books. Pierre Boulleâ s tale of astronauts trapped on a planet ruled by apes offers â a parable of racial and other social failings on Earth, in the grand satiric tradition of Gulliverâ s Travelsâ (Anatomy of Wonder II:143). Most rare and desirable signed and inscribed. Translated from the French by Xan Fielding. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed, 'a Chris Aragama en lui souhaitant beaucoup de succes, avec l'amicale sympathie de Pierre Boulle.' Fine in a near fine dust jacket. First edition in English of Pierre Boulleâ s chilling novel that launched one of the greatest science fiction sagas in motion picture history.

Planet of the Apes by Pierre Boulle