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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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. wings , yielding the secrets of closed gar- dens that their walls no longer guarded . He landed ... secret of its passions and withheld its kindly charm ; for , to master that , he would have needed to give up an ...
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. wings , yielding the secrets of closed gar- dens that their walls no longer guarded . He landed ... secret of its passions and withheld its kindly charm ; for , to master that , he would have needed to give up an ...
Page 73
... secret unconfessed . And yet- what menace it may hold , a call from the outer darkness when two postal planes are on their way ! Rivière thought of telegrams that invaded the peace of families sitting round their lamp at night and that ...
... secret unconfessed . And yet- what menace it may hold , a call from the outer darkness when two postal planes are on their way ! Rivière thought of telegrams that invaded the peace of families sitting round their lamp at night and that ...
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... secret corner of the sky it floated , as in a harbor of the Happy Isles . Below him still the storm was fashioning an- other world , thridded with squalls and cloudbursts and lightnings , but turning to the stars a face of crystal snow ...
... secret corner of the sky it floated , as in a harbor of the Happy Isles . Below him still the storm was fashioning an- other world , thridded with squalls and cloudbursts and lightnings , but turning to the stars a face of crystal snow ...
Contents
EVENING | 3 |
SERVICE | 15 |
THE SOUND OF THE DISTANT ENGINE SWELLED | 21 |
Copyright | |
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