Pierre Boulle – författare

The Bridge on the River Kwai tells the story of three POWs who endure the hell of the Japanese camps on the Burma-Siam railway - Colonel Nicholson, a man prepared to sacrifice his life but not his dignity; Major Warden, a modest hero, saboteur and deadly killer; Commander Shears, who escaped from hell but was sent back. Ordered by the Japanese to build a bridge, the Colonel refuses, as it is against regulations for officers to work with other ranks. The Japanese give way but, to prove a point of British superiority, construction of the bridge goes ahead - at great cost to the men under Nicholson's command.

Ulysse finds a world that looks like Earth, until he sees who is in the cages. Read the classic, chilling dystopian novel that inspired one of the world’s most iconic film franchises. Ulysse, a journalist, travels from Earth on a near-light-speed voyage to the Betelgeuse system. There he reaches Soror, a planet that seems strangely familiar: it has forests, cities and signs of civilisation. But its order is not human. On Soror, humans live like animals. They cannot speak, they are hunted in the wild, and they are sent to laboratories for scientific study. The ruling species are intelligent apes, whose society has its own hierarchies, prejudices and institutions. Captured and taken to a research facility, Ulysse must prove that he is not the creature they believe him to be. This is science fiction with the sharpness of satire: a story of space travel, evolution and power in which mankind is no longer the measure of all things. Boulle’s imagined planet remains disturbing because its ape society is not alien enough. 'A scintillating mix of sci-fi adventure and allegory' Los Angeles Times 'A drastic warning about where mankind's apparent desire to destroy itself might lead' The Mirror

Ulysse finds a world that looks like Earth, until he sees who is in the cages. Read the classic, chilling dystopian novel that inspired one of the world’s most iconic film franchises. Ulysse, a journalist, travels from Earth on a near-light-speed voyage to the Betelgeuse system. There he reaches Soror, a planet that seems strangely familiar: it has forests, cities and signs of civilisation. But its order is not human. On Soror, humans live like animals. They cannot speak, they are hunted in the wild, and they are sent to laboratories for scientific study. The ruling species are intelligent apes, whose society has its own hierarchies, prejudices and institutions. Captured and taken to a research facility, Ulysse must prove that he is not the creature they believe him to be. This is science fiction with the sharpness of satire: a story of space travel, evolution and power in which mankind is no longer the measure of all things. Boulle’s imagined planet remains disturbing because its ape society is not alien enough. 'A scintillating mix of sci-fi adventure and allegory' Los Angeles Times 'A drastic warning about where mankind's apparent desire to destroy itself might lead' The Mirror

The Bridge on the River Kwai tells the story of three POWs who endure the hell of the Japanese camps on the Burma-Siam railway - Colonel Nicholson, a man prepared to sacrifice his life but not his dignity; Major Warden, a modest hero, saboteur and deadly killer; Commander Shears, who escaped from hell but was sent back. Ordered by the Japanese to build a bridge, the Colonel refuses, as it is against regulations for officers to work with other ranks. The Japanese give way but, to prove a point of British superiority, construction of the bridge goes ahead - at great cost to the men under Nicholson's command.

Hi ha éssers humans en un altre lloc, diferent de la nostra gal·làxia? És la pregunta que es fan els passatgers d''una nau espacial que sobrevola un planeta proper a Betelgeuse: s''hi albiren ciutats, carreteres curiosament semblants a les de la nostra Terra. Després d''haver-s''hi posat, els tres homes descobreixen que el planeta està habitat per simis. Aquests els capturaran i es dedicaran a experimentar amb ells. Davant els simis, els caldrà donar proves de la seua humanitat. Amb milions d''exemplars venuts en tot el món, reeditat ininterrompudament des de la seua primera aparició i adaptat al cinema, El planeta dels simis, l''obra mundialment coneguda de Pierre Boulle, és un dels grans clàssics de la ciència-ficció i de la novel·la d''aventures. Aquesta versió, traduïda per Juli Avinent, inclou un text introductori d''Alberto Giráldez sobre l''experimentació amb animals.