Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Peyronnet’s previous credits includes developing Alice Sebold’s The Lovely Bones which was directed by Peter Jackson in 2009 and ...

PLANET OF THE APES by Pierre Boulle. 246 pages. Vanguard. $4.50. Writers used to have fun with the simple-minded idea that if 50 monkeys were locked in a room with 50 typewriters, they would ...

Fifty years after its initial publication - and seven ever-dwindling feature films later - Eli Lee examines Pierre Boulle's classic inversion sci-fi novel and asks if the questions it poses are still ...

A war between nations is innately a clash of cultures. Pierre Boulle's best-selling novel "The Bridge Over the River Kwai," first published in English in 1954 and made into a movie by David Lean, ...

FACE OF A HERO (221 pp.)—Pierre Boulle—Vanguard ($3.50). In the intellectual landscape created by French Novelist Boulle, the most interesting sight is a special stream of Gallic irony. His heroes ...

Sometimes the lives of authors are as exciting as their books. French novelist Pierre Boulle was born in 1912 and trained as an engineer, working on British rubber plantations in Malaya. He became a ...

Pierre Boulle was the French author who, in 1963, first had the brilliant idea of humans travelling in time and stumbling on ape civilisation. We use cookies on our website, and similar technology on ...

EXCLUSIVE: Uri Singer and Aimee Peyronnet are teaming to acquire two works from the estate of French author Pierre Boulle, who wrote the novels The Planet of the Apes and The Bridge Over the River ...