Night FlightWinner of the 1931 Prix Femina, the novel concerns the perils of pioneer aviation, and is a fictionalized account of the author's own experience. "An enduring modern classic and the best description of flight in print" (Schiff, 205, 210). |
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... arms , taking deep breaths , across one's opened shirt . Rather a pleasant feeling . When it happens at night another feeling creeps into it - of having done something immensely silly . I shall never again admire a merely brave man ...
... arms , taking deep breaths , across one's opened shirt . Rather a pleasant feeling . When it happens at night another feeling creeps into it - of having done something immensely silly . I shall never again admire a merely brave man ...
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... arms ! " and only one man - mine - will an- swer it . True , he rested still , yet his was the ominous rest of reserves soon to be summoned to the front . This town at rest did not protect him ; its light would seem as nothing when ...
... arms ! " and only one man - mine - will an- swer it . True , he rested still , yet his was the ominous rest of reserves soon to be summoned to the front . This town at rest did not protect him ; its light would seem as nothing when ...
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... arms had let him go ; those bonds of his were loosed , as of a prisoner whom they let walk a while in liberty amongst the flowers . " Too beautiful , " he thought . Amid the far - flung treasure of the stars he roved , in a world where ...
... arms had let him go ; those bonds of his were loosed , as of a prisoner whom they let walk a while in liberty amongst the flowers . " Too beautiful , " he thought . Amid the far - flung treasure of the stars he roved , in a world where ...
Contents
EVENING | 3 |
SERVICE | 15 |
THE SOUND OF THE DISTANT ENGINE SWELLED | 21 |
Copyright | |
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