Biographies & Memoirs | Memoirs

Papillon (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)

by Henri Charrière

2020-08-23 09:37:57

Compare Price
Henri Charrière, called "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... Read more

Henri Charrière, called "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.

Charrière's astonishing autobiography, Papillon, was published in France to instant acclaim in 1968, more than twenty years after his final escape. Since then, it has become a treasured classic -- the gripping, shocking, ultimately uplifting odyssey of an innocent man who simply would not be defeated.

Less

Book Details

Print pages576
PublisherWilliam Morrow Paperbacks
Publication date January 30, 2012
Languageeng
ISBN9780007383122
autor-image
Henri Charriere
Author
In 1931, 25-year-old Henri Charriere was found guilty of a murder he had not committed and transported to a penal colony in French Guiana. His numerous daring escapes and subsequent adventures are rec...

Compare Prices

Store Availability Book Format Condition Price
Indigo In Stock Paperback Paperback Buy CAD 21.99
eBooks.com In Stock Buy GBP 2.99
Books A Million In Stock Paperback Paperback Buy USD 19.99
Amazon In Stock Paperback Paperback Buy USD 17.99
Barnes & Noble In Stock Paperback Paperback Buy USD 17.99
IndigoIn Stock
Format
Paperback
Condition
Paperback
Buy CAD 21.99
eBooks.comIn Stock
Format
Condition
Buy GBP 2.99
Books A MillionIn Stock
Format
Paperback
Condition
Paperback
Buy USD 19.99
AmazonIn Stock
Format
Paperback
Condition
Paperback
Buy USD 17.99
Barnes & NobleIn Stock
Format
Paperback
Condition
Paperback
Buy USD 17.99
Available Discount
No Discount available

Related Books

View All
${ornaments[Math.floor(Math.random()*ornaments.length)]}
FREE
Il fiume Bianco e i Dénka / Memorie
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
${ornaments[Math.floor(Math.random()*ornaments.length)]}
FREE
Maxims and Opinions of Field-Marshal His Grace the Duke of Wellington, Selected From His Writings and Speeches During a Public Life of More Than Half a Century
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
${ornaments[Math.floor(Math.random()*ornaments.length)]}
FREE
Memoir and Letters of Francis W. Newman (Classic Reprint)
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
${ornaments[Math.floor(Math.random()*ornaments.length)]}
FREE
Memoir of a brother
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
${ornaments[Math.floor(Math.random()*ornaments.length)]}
FREE
A Minstrel in France
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
${ornaments[Math.floor(Math.random()*ornaments.length)]}
FREE
The Americanization of Edward Bok
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
${ornaments[Math.floor(Math.random()*ornaments.length)]}
FREE
My Home in the Field of Honor
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
${ornaments[Math.floor(Math.random()*ornaments.length)]}
FREE
Biography and Family Record of Lorenzo Snow
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
${ornaments[Math.floor(Math.random()*ornaments.length)]}
FREE
My Cave Life in Vicksburg, With Letters of Trial and Travel
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
${ornaments[Math.floor(Math.random()*ornaments.length)]}
FREE
Pope: His Descent & Family Connections, Facts and Conjectures
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
${ornaments[Math.floor(Math.random()*ornaments.length)]}
FREE
Thirty Years a Slave
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
${ornaments[Math.floor(Math.random()*ornaments.length)]}
FREE
Stolen Treasure
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
${ornaments[Math.floor(Math.random()*ornaments.length)]}
FREE
William Clayton's Journal
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
${ornaments[Math.floor(Math.random()*ornaments.length)]}
FREE
Two Months in the Camp of Big Bear
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
${ornaments[Math.floor(Math.random()*ornaments.length)]}
FREE
Records of Journeys to Venice and the Low Countries
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
${ornaments[Math.floor(Math.random()*ornaments.length)]}
FREE
The Life of Bismarck, Private and Political with Descriptive Notices of His Ancestry
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
${ornaments[Math.floor(Math.random()*ornaments.length)]}
FREE
A Week at Waterloo in 1815
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
${ornaments[Math.floor(Math.random()*ornaments.length)]}
FREE
Three Years in Europe Places I Have Seen and People I Have Met
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
${ornaments[Math.floor(Math.random()*ornaments.length)]}
FREE
The Loss of the S. S. Titanic
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
${ornaments[Math.floor(Math.random()*ornaments.length)]}
FREE
The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova De Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 24: London to Berlin
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
${ornaments[Math.floor(Math.random()*ornaments.length)]}
FREE
Private Peat
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
${ornaments[Math.floor(Math.random()*ornaments.length)]}
FREE
Adventures and Letters of Richard Harding Davis
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
${ornaments[Math.floor(Math.random()*ornaments.length)]}
FREE
An American Idyll - the Life of Carleton H. Parker
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
${ornaments[Math.floor(Math.random()*ornaments.length)]}
FREE
Margaret Ogilvy
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
${ornaments[Math.floor(Math.random()*ornaments.length)]}
FREE
Memories of My Life
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆

Join us and get access to all
your favourite books

Sign up for free and start exploring thousands of eBooks today.

Sign up for free

Stay in touch.

© 2026 AMPLE READS