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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... golden evening , the shadowed hills had dug their furrows and the plains grew luminous with long - enduring light . For in these lands the ground gives off this golden glow persist- ently , just as , even when winter goes , the ...
... golden evening , the shadowed hills had dug their furrows and the plains grew luminous with long - enduring light . For in these lands the ground gives off this golden glow persist- ently , just as , even when winter goes , the ...
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... golden sand where a man might get a foot- hold after this hard night . Beneath him the plains , like friendly shores , would spread their safety . The quiet land would bear its sleeping farms and flocks and hills . And all the flotsam ...
... golden sand where a man might get a foot- hold after this hard night . Beneath him the plains , like friendly shores , would spread their safety . The quiet land would bear its sleeping farms and flocks and hills . And all the flotsam ...
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... golden beads , beneath the paler gold of the star - cities . And at his prow the pilot held within his hands his freight of lives , eyes wide open , full of moonlight , like a shepherd . Already Buenos Aires was dyeing the horizon with ...
... golden beads , beneath the paler gold of the star - cities . And at his prow the pilot held within his hands his freight of lives , eyes wide open , full of moonlight , like a shepherd . Already Buenos Aires was dyeing the horizon with ...
Contents
EVENING | 3 |
SERVICE | 15 |
THE SOUND OF THE DISTANT ENGINE SWELLED | 21 |
Copyright | |
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