Tag Archives: Margaret Giovanelli

Review: The Marvelous Palace by Pierre Boulle

This is part of a series on French author Pierre Boulle. Flammarion, 1976 translated by Margaret Giovanelli Vanguard Press, 1977 187 pages The original title for this collection was Histoires perfides, which literally means “false or treacherous stories.” Personally, I like the English title because it is mellifluous (the very reason why the phrase was

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Review: The Good Leviathan by Pierre Boulle

This is part of a series on French author Pierre Boulle. Julliard, 1977 translated by Margaret Giovanelli Vanguard Press, 1978 204 pages Pierre Boulle published The Great Leviathan, the story of a massive, nuclear-powered oil tanker, eight years after the 1969 Santa Barbara oil spill, in which over three million gallons of oil were released

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