Southern Mail; Night Flight (Modern Classics) - Softcover

Saint-Exupery, Antoine

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140041702 ISBN 13: 9780140041705

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 1976

Synopsis

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, an intrepid and eccentric adventurer, transferred his passion for flying to the written word by writing several classics of aviation literature, including Southern Mail and Night Flight. Based on Saint-Exupéry's trail-blazing flights for the French airmail service over the Sahara and later, the Andes, these two novels evoke the tragic courage and nobility of the airborne pioneers who took enormous risks, flying in open cock-pits in planes that were often fragile and unstable.

About this title

About the Author:

The French Writer and aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900-1944), was born in Lyon. His first two books, SOUTHERN MAIL and NIGHT FLIGHT, are distinguished by a poetic evocation of the romance and discipline of flying. Later works, including WIND, SAND AND STARS and FLIGHT TO ARRAS, stress his humanistic philosophy. Saint-Exupéry's popular children's book THE LITTLE PRINCE is also read by adults for its allegorical meaning. Saint-Exupéry's plane disappeared during a mission in World War II.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 1976
• ISBN 10: 0140041702
• ISBN 13: 9780140041705
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 176