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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... shadow that was ripe to rottenness . As he slowed down his engine for the San Julian landing , Fabien knew that he was tired . All that endeared his life to man was looming up to meet him ; men's houses , friendly little cafés , trees ...
... shadow that was ripe to rottenness . As he slowed down his engine for the San Julian landing , Fabien knew that he was tired . All that endeared his life to man was looming up to meet him ; men's houses , friendly little cafés , trees ...
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... shadow . Impassive the man returned to his desk , for drowsiness and solitude had sealed his features on a secret unconfessed . And yet- what menace it may hold , a call from the outer darkness when two postal planes are on their way ...
... shadow . Impassive the man returned to his desk , for drowsiness and solitude had sealed his features on a secret unconfessed . And yet- what menace it may hold , a call from the outer darkness when two postal planes are on their way ...
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... shadow , to betray him . He might keep up the struggle , chance his luck ; no destiny attacks us from out- side . But , within him , man bears his fate and there comes a moment when he knows himself vulnerable ; and then , as in a ...
... shadow , to betray him . He might keep up the struggle , chance his luck ; no destiny attacks us from out- side . But , within him , man bears his fate and there comes a moment when he knows himself vulnerable ; and then , as in a ...
Contents
EVENING | 3 |
SERVICE | 15 |
THE SOUND OF THE DISTANT ENGINE SWELLED | 21 |
Copyright | |
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