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CONDEMNED TO DEVIL'S ISLAND: THE BIOGRAPHY OF AN UNKNOWN CONVICT by Blair Niles; PUBLISHER: Grosset & Dunlap, NYC, NY; 1928 fifth printing; 376 pages.
"In telling the story of The Devil's Island Penal Colony in French Guiana, I have adopted the method of a fictional biography, instead of a personal narrative. This method made it possible to write of Devil's Island as it appears to the men condemned to life and to suffer there as prisoners and as exiles. It did not seem to me important how I personally felt about this tragic Penal Colony but immensely important how the convicts themselves feel about it. And so I chose to tell the story as the biography of an unknown convict whom I have called Michel. The character of Michel is thus based upon a real person; altered in the story only sufficiently to conceal his identity." From the author in the introduction.
Condition: First page has the corner clipped off. Some wear to the cover. No other known damage.
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