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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... night , but the odds were in its favor . Rivière pushed the book aside . " That will do . " Then , a night - warden whose charge was half the world , he went out to inspect the men on night duty , and came back . Later , standing at an ...
... night , but the odds were in its favor . Rivière pushed the book aside . " That will do . " Then , a night - warden whose charge was half the world , he went out to inspect the men on night duty , and came back . Later , standing at an ...
Page 71
... living en- ergy , living but , like the hoarded gold of banks , asleep . Somewhere he would find the solitary clerk on night duty . Somewhere here a man was working that life and energy should persevere and thus 71 NIGHT FLIGHT.
... living en- ergy , living but , like the hoarded gold of banks , asleep . Somewhere he would find the solitary clerk on night duty . Somewhere here a man was working that life and energy should persevere and thus 71 NIGHT FLIGHT.
Page 170
... duties are ? " Then he pushed open the door that led into the Business Office and saw how Fa- bien's disappearance was recorded there in signs his wife could not have noticed . The ... night duty whose presence was no longer NIGHT FLIGHT.
... duties are ? " Then he pushed open the door that led into the Business Office and saw how Fa- bien's disappearance was recorded there in signs his wife could not have noticed . The ... night duty whose presence was no longer NIGHT FLIGHT.
Contents
EVENING | 3 |
SERVICE | 15 |
THE SOUND OF THE DISTANT ENGINE SWELLED | 21 |
Copyright | |
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