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 15
... plane . Three pilots , each behind a cowling heavy as a river - barge , intent upon his flight , were hastening ... planes had come in , he could not shake off a feeling of apprehension which had been haunting him all day . Minute by ...
... plane . Three pilots , each behind a cowling heavy as a river - barge , intent upon his flight , were hastening ... planes had come in , he could not shake off a feeling of apprehension which had been haunting him all day . Minute by ...
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... plane whose messages were be- ing awaited here . The vague unrest of an aëroplane in flight brooded not only on Rivière's heart but , with the droning of the engine , upon the capitals and little towns . Glad of this night that promised ...
... plane whose messages were be- ing awaited here . The vague unrest of an aëroplane in flight brooded not only on Rivière's heart but , with the droning of the engine , upon the capitals and little towns . Glad of this night that promised ...
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... plane but , like a ship that has crossed the bar , it moved across a tranquil anchorage . In an unknown and secret corner of the sky it floated , as in a harbor of the Happy Isles . Below him still the storm was fashioning an- other ...
... plane but , like a ship that has crossed the bar , it moved across a tranquil anchorage . In an unknown and secret corner of the sky it floated , as in a harbor of the Happy Isles . Below him still the storm was fashioning an- other ...
Contents
EVENING | 3 |
SERVICE | 15 |
THE SOUND OF THE DISTANT ENGINE SWELLED | 21 |
Copyright | |
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