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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... ness . The music had breathed to him its message , to him alone amongst these ordi- nary folk , whispered its gentle secret . And now the star . Across the shoulders of these people a voice was speaking to him in a tongue that he alone ...
... ness . The music had breathed to him its message , to him alone amongst these ordi- nary folk , whispered its gentle secret . And now the star . Across the shoulders of these people a voice was speaking to him in a tongue that he alone ...
Page 102
... ness must come up and say - there's noth- ing in it ! This man must enter the inmost heart of night , that clotted darkness , with- out even his little miner's davy , whose light , falling only on a hand or wing , suf- fices to push the ...
... ness must come up and say - there's noth- ing in it ! This man must enter the inmost heart of night , that clotted darkness , with- out even his little miner's davy , whose light , falling only on a hand or wing , suf- fices to push the ...
Page 114
... possible , how gladly he would swim toward the strand of daylight ! But , well he knew , he was surrounded ; for better or for worse the end would come within this murk of dark- · ness . . . Sometimes , indeed , when 114 NIGHT FLIGHT.
... possible , how gladly he would swim toward the strand of daylight ! But , well he knew , he was surrounded ; for better or for worse the end would come within this murk of dark- · ness . . . Sometimes , indeed , when 114 NIGHT FLIGHT.
Contents
EVENING | 3 |
SERVICE | 15 |
THE SOUND OF THE DISTANT ENGINE SWELLED | 21 |
Copyright | |
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