<p><strong>"A modern classic of courage and excitement." --<em>The New Yorker </em></strong></p><p><strong>Soon to be a Major Motion Picture Starring Charlie Hunnam and Rami Malek</strong></p><p>Henri Charrière, 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: <em>escape</em>. 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.</p><p>Charrière's astonishing autobiography, <em>Papillon</em>, was first 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 would not be defeated.</p><p>"A first-class adventure story." -- <em>New York Review of Books</em></p>