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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Page 9
... lamp , let go of it , felt for it again , made sure it held ; then lightly touched each switch , to be certain of find- ing it later , training his hands to function in a blind man's world . Now that his hands had learnt their rôle by ...
... lamp , let go of it , felt for it again , made sure it held ; then lightly touched each switch , to be certain of find- ing it later , training his hands to function in a blind man's world . Now that his hands had learnt their rôle by ...
Page 64
... lamp in the cockpit was all that remained to him of the world of men and he shud- dered to know himself descending helpless into the dark heart of night , with only a little thing , a miner's safety - lamp , to see him through . He ...
... lamp in the cockpit was all that remained to him of the world of men and he shud- dered to know himself descending helpless into the dark heart of night , with only a little thing , a miner's safety - lamp , to see him through . He ...
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... lamp at night and that grief which , for seconds that seem unending , keeps its secret on the father's face . Waves , so weak at first , so distant from the call they carry , and so calm ; and yet each quiet purring of the bell held ...
... lamp at night and that grief which , for seconds that seem unending , keeps its secret on the father's face . Waves , so weak at first , so distant from the call they carry , and so calm ; and yet each quiet purring of the bell held ...
Contents
EVENING | 3 |
SERVICE | 15 |
THE SOUND OF THE DISTANT ENGINE SWELLED | 21 |
Copyright | |
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