Pierre Boulle
Born
in Avignon, France
February 21, 1912
Died
January 30, 1994
Genre
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Planet of the Apes
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44 editions
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published
1963
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The Bridge Over the River Kwai
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204 editions
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published
1952
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ألعاب العلماء
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14 editions
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published
1971
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Time Out of Mind
23 editions
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published
1953
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Garden on the Moon
22 editions
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published
1964
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The Whale of the Victoria Cross
17 editions
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published
1983
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The Photographer
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20 editions
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published
1967
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L'archéologue et le mystère de Néfertiti
9 editions
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published
2005
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A Noble Profession
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21 editions
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published
1960
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The Virtues of Hell
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18 editions
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published
1974
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“But once an original book has been written-and no more than one or two appear in a century-men of letters imitate it, in other words, they copy it so that hundreds of thousands of books are published on exactly the same theme, with slightly different titles and modified phraseology. This should be able to be achieved by apes, who are essentially imitators, provided, of course, that they are able to make use of language.”
― Planet of the Apes
― Planet of the Apes
“I racked my brains to discover some sense in the events I had witnessed. I needed this intellectual exercise to escape from the despair that haunted me, to prove to myself that I was a man, I mean a man from Earth, a reasoning creature who made it a habit to discover a logical explanation for the apparently miraculous whims of nature, and not a beast hunted down by highly developed apes.”
― Planet of the Apes
― Planet of the Apes
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