PAPILLON
With an Introd. by Jean-Pierre Castelnau. Translated by June P. Wilson and Walter B. Michaels
William Morrow and Company · 1970
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10 weeks on the Hardcover Nonfiction list, peaking at #5
Papillon is an autobiographical novel, or sometimes referred to as a narrative novel. A memoir by convicted felon Henri Charrière that accounts for a fourteen-year period in Charrière's life (October 26, 1931 to October 18, 1945) from when he was wrongly convicted of murder in France and sentenced to a life of hard labor at the Devil's Island penal colony, to when he escaped from prison to Venezuela free of French justice.
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- Published
- 1970
- Pages
- 460
- Publisher
- William Morrow and Company
- Google rating
- 5.0(2)
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