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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... 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 . ” By way of epigraph I might append to this quotation an aphorism from ...
... 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 . ” By way of epigraph I might append to this quotation an aphorism from ...
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... feel the aching burden of his limbs - for even our misfortunes are a part of our belong- ings - and to stay , a simple dweller here , watching from his window a scene that would never change . This tiny village , he could gladly have ...
... feel the aching burden of his limbs - for even our misfortunes are a part of our belong- ings - and to stay , a simple dweller here , watching from his window a scene that would never change . This tiny village , he could gladly have ...
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... feel run down it's not these men's business to give you energy . You are their chief . Your weakness is ab- surd . Now write ! " " I- " " Write . Inspector Robineau imposes the penalty stated hereunder on Pellerin , Pilot , · on the ...
... feel run down it's not these men's business to give you energy . You are their chief . Your weakness is ab- surd . Now write ! " " I- " " Write . Inspector Robineau imposes the penalty stated hereunder on Pellerin , Pilot , · on the ...
Contents
EVENING | 3 |
SERVICE | 15 |
THE SOUND OF THE DISTANT ENGINE SWELLED | 21 |
Copyright | |
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