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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... town to another , the shepherd of those little towns . Every two hours he met another of them , drinking at its riverside or browsing • on its plain . Sometimes , after a hundred miles of steppes as desolate as the sea , he encoun ...
... town to another , the shepherd of those little towns . Every two hours he met another of them , drinking at its riverside or browsing • on its plain . Sometimes , after a hundred miles of steppes as desolate as the sea , he encoun ...
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... little towns , where he lived an hour , their gar- dens girdled by old walls over which he passed , seemed something apart and ever- lasting . Now the village was rising to meet the plane , opening out toward him . And there , he mused ...
... little towns , where he lived an hour , their gar- dens girdled by old walls over which he passed , seemed something apart and ever- lasting . Now the village was rising to meet the plane , opening out toward him . And there , he mused ...
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... little townsfolk of the little towns promenade each evening round a bandstand and Rivière thought : It's nonsense to talk of being just or unjust toward them ; they don't exist . For him , a man was a mere lump of wax to be kneaded into ...
... little townsfolk of the little towns promenade each evening round a bandstand and Rivière thought : It's nonsense to talk of being just or unjust toward them ; they don't exist . For him , a man was a mere lump of wax to be kneaded into ...
Contents
EVENING | 3 |
SERVICE | 15 |
THE SOUND OF THE DISTANT ENGINE SWELLED | 21 |
Copyright | |
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