Saint-Exupéry : a biography
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Saint-Exupéry : a biography
Da Capo Press, 1996
1st Da Capo ed
- alk. paper
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Originally published: New York : A.A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1994
Includes bibliographical references (p. [511]-514) and index
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The definitive biography of the most translated french writer of all time.. }When he vanished in 1944disappearing into thin air as the Little Prince does in his best-loved workAntoine de Saint-Exupry was already a legend. His name is synonymous with the golden age of aviation, when pilots flew through desert sandstorms in open cockpits and without instruments, fired at by rebellious tribes. The author of many of the classics of aviation literature, he also wrote the children's classic The Little Prince , the most widely translated book in the French language. Stacy Schiff, with an infectious fascination for her subject, has brought Saint-Exupry to life in this definitive, humane, and hugely entertaining biography. }
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- A King of Infinite Space
- The Mother Country
- Things in Heaven and Earth
- Lost Horizons
- Silver Linings
- Walking on Air
- Friends in High Places
- The Swift Completion of Their Appointed Rounds
- Toward the Country Where the Stones Fly
- Brightness Falls
- Beyond the Call of Duty
- Tayara Boum-Boum, Tayara Boum-Boum!
- Civil Evening Twilight
- Where is France?
- Resistance on Fifth Avenue
- Anywhere Out of This World
- Into Thin Air
- Epilogue: Saint Antoine dExupry.
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