Vol De Nuit
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: No. 701 of 5000 copies
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: **FRENCH TEXT ONLY**
In the golden age of aviation, where every flight into darkness is a wager against death, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's Vol de Nuit chronicles the tense, sleepless world of early airmail operations over South America — a world where pilots vanish into storms and operations directors drive men forward with an iron will, knowing the cost. At the centre of the novel stands Rivière, the unyielding chief of operations, who commands his pilots into the perilous night skies of Patagonia, wrestling with the profound moral weight of sacrificing individual lives for the greater progress of human civilization. Prefaces by Nobel laureate André Gide announced to the French literary world that a major new voice had arrived, and Vol de Nuit, first published in 1931, went on to win the prestigious Prix Femina. Saint-Exupéry writes with the spare, luminous prose of a man who lived the experience himself — a working pilot who understood both the sublime terror of night flight and the philosophical burden of command. The novel transcends its aviation setting to argue that human greatness is forged only through hardship, duty, and the willingness to confront the void — leaving the reader to ask whether Rivière's ruthless vision is heroism or tragedy.
Author: Antoine De Saint-Exupéry
Format: Hardback
Published: 1931, Gallimard
Genre: Classic fiction
Edition: No. 701 of 5000 copies
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: **FRENCH TEXT ONLY**
In the golden age of aviation, where every flight into darkness is a wager against death, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's Vol de Nuit chronicles the tense, sleepless world of early airmail operations over South America — a world where pilots vanish into storms and operations directors drive men forward with an iron will, knowing the cost. At the centre of the novel stands Rivière, the unyielding chief of operations, who commands his pilots into the perilous night skies of Patagonia, wrestling with the profound moral weight of sacrificing individual lives for the greater progress of human civilization. Prefaces by Nobel laureate André Gide announced to the French literary world that a major new voice had arrived, and Vol de Nuit, first published in 1931, went on to win the prestigious Prix Femina. Saint-Exupéry writes with the spare, luminous prose of a man who lived the experience himself — a working pilot who understood both the sublime terror of night flight and the philosophical burden of command. The novel transcends its aviation setting to argue that human greatness is forged only through hardship, duty, and the willingness to confront the void — leaving the reader to ask whether Rivière's ruthless vision is heroism or tragedy.