Papillon / Henri Charrière ; with an introduction by Jean-Pierre Castelnau ; translated by June P. Wilson and Walter B. Michaels.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Charrière, Henri, 1906-1973.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Papillon. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Charrière, Henri, 1906-1973.

Charrière, Henri.

Prisoners--French Guiana--Biography.

Prisoners.

French Guiana.

Genre:

Biographies.

Autobiographies.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)

Physical Description:

xi, 544 pages : map ; 21 cm

Edition:

First Perennial edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Perennial, 2001.

Summary:

Henri Charriè re, called "Papillon," for the butterfly tattoo on his chest, was convicted in Paris in 1931 for a murder he did not commit. When he was sentenced to life imprisonment in the penal colony of French Guiana, one thought obsessed him: escape. After planning and executing a series of treacherous yet failed attempts over many years, "Papillon" was eventually sent to the notorious prison, Devil's Island, a place from which no one had ever escaped -- that was, until "Papillon." His escape, described in breathless detail, was one of the most incredible tests of human cunning, will, and endurance.

In 1968, more than twenty years after his final escape, Charriè re had his astonishing autobiography, "Papillon," published in France to instant acclaim -- a worldwide bestseller describing the gripping, shocking odyssey of the author's imprisonment and escape over a greuling decade.

Notes:

Originally published: New York : W. Morrow, 1970.

ISBN:

0060934794

9780060934798

OCLC:

45827753

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