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 31
... returned from a few hours ' life on the other side of the picture , ignoring if it would be possible for him ever to retrieve this city with its lights , ever to know again his little human frailties , irksome yet cherished childhood ...
... returned from a few hours ' life on the other side of the picture , ignoring if it would be possible for him ever to retrieve this city with its lights , ever to know again his little human frailties , irksome yet cherished childhood ...
Page 73
... returned to his desk , for drowsiness and solitude had sealed his features on a secret unconfessed . And yet- what ... returning to the surface , 73 NIGHT FLIGHT.
... returned to his desk , for drowsiness and solitude had sealed his features on a secret unconfessed . And yet- what ... returning to the surface , 73 NIGHT FLIGHT.
Page 184
... returned to the night's tragedy . For with this tragedy all his chief's com- paign went under and Robineau lamented a twofold loss . The picture of Rivière alone there in his private office rose in Robineau's mind ; “ old chap ...
... returned to the night's tragedy . For with this tragedy all his chief's com- paign went under and Robineau lamented a twofold loss . The picture of Rivière alone there in his private office rose in Robineau's mind ; “ old chap ...
Contents
EVENING | 3 |
SERVICE | 15 |
THE SOUND OF THE DISTANT ENGINE SWELLED | 21 |
Copyright | |
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