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 ix
... smile at the current meaning we give to " courage . " I trust that Saint Exupéry will permit me to quote an old letter of his dating from the time when he was flying on the Casablanca - Dakar air - route . " I don't know when I shall be ...
... smile at the current meaning we give to " courage . " I trust that Saint Exupéry will permit me to quote an old letter of his dating from the time when he was flying on the Casablanca - Dakar air - route . " I don't know when I shall be ...
Page 151
... smile . " That's better ! " he cried . But his words were drowned by the rumor of the flight ; they conversed in smiles . I'm daft , thought Fabien , to be smiling , we're lost . And yet at last a myriad dark arms had let him go ; those ...
... smile . " That's better ! " he cried . But his words were drowned by the rumor of the flight ; they conversed in smiles . I'm daft , thought Fabien , to be smiling , we're lost . And yet at last a myriad dark arms had let him go ; those ...
Page 169
... smile , an almost humble smile , ignoring her own power . Rivière sat down again rather heavily . " Still she is helping me to discover the thing I'm looking for . ” He fingered absent - mindedly the messages from the northern airports ...
... smile , an almost humble smile , ignoring her own power . Rivière sat down again rather heavily . " Still she is helping me to discover the thing I'm looking for . ” He fingered absent - mindedly the messages from the northern airports ...
Contents
EVENING | 3 |
SERVICE | 15 |
THE SOUND OF THE DISTANT ENGINE SWELLED | 21 |
Copyright | |
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