Papillon

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"A modern classic of courage and excitement." --The New Yorker Soon to be a Major Motion Picture Starring Charlie Hunnam and Rami MalekHenri Charri re, nicknamed "Papillon," for the butterfly tattoo on his chest, was convicted in Paris in 1931 of a murder he did not commit. Sentenced to life imprisonment in the penal colony of French Guiana, he became obsessed with one goal: escape. After planning and executing a series of treacherous yet failed attempts over many years, he was eventually sent to the notorious prison, Devil's Island, a place from which no one had ever escaped . . . until Papillon. His flight to freedom remains one of the most incredible feats of human cunning, will, and endurance ever undertaken.Charri re's astonishing autobiography, Papillon, was first published in France to instant acclaim in 1968, more than twenty years after...

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