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The Antoine De Saint-Exupery Collection (The Little Prince / Airman's Odyssey)
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Include books by the same authorNight Flight
Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Stuart Gilbert · 128 pages
*Night Flight* (French title: *Vol de Nuit*) is the second novel by French writer and aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. It was first published in 1931 and became an international bestseller. The book is based on Saint-Exupéry's experiences as an airmail pilot and as a director of the Aeroposta Argentina airline, based in Argentina. The characters were also loosely based on people Saint-Exupéry kne
The Little Prince
Antoine De Saint-Expury · 147 pages
"All grown-ups were once children . . . but only few of them remember it." It’s the Sahara Desert, and a pilot has crashed his plane. When suddenly a young boy—with golden hair and a loveable laugh, and who claims to have fallen to Earth—appears before him and asks him to draw a sheep, what does he do? He draws it! Thus begins this poetic and sublime adventure, an enchanting fable, which encloses
The Little Prince
Antoine Saint-Exupéry · 118 pages
The Little Prince recounts the relationship between an adult and a child. The adult is an aviator who has crash landed in the Sahara desert. The child is a golden-haired prince who has arrived on Earth after taking a circuitous route from his home on a distant asteroid. The prince's tales of sheep and baobab trees and roses and the inhabitants of miniscule planets reveal many truths about the absu
The Plague, The Fall, Exile and the Kingdom, and Selected Essays
Albert Camus · 656 pages
From the Publisher: From one of the most brilliant and influential thinkers of the twentieth century-two novels, six short stories, and a pair of essays in a single volume. In both his essays and his fiction, Albert Camus (1913-1960) deployed his lyric eloquence in defense against despair, providing an affirmation of the brave assertion of humanity in the face of a universe devoid of order or mean
Novels 1942-52: The Moon is Down/Cannery Row/The Pearl/East of Eden
John Steinbeck · 983 pages
John Steinbeck has earned a place as one of America's most enduringly popular writers. Here, in the third volume of The Library of America's authoritative edition of his writings, are four novels that give ample evidence of his remarkable range and unique accessibility. The Moon is Down, inspired by refugees from Nazi-occupied Europe and widely circulated among resistance fighters during the war,
Rabbit Novels: Rabbit, Run and Rabbit Redux
John Updike · 640 pages
Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
Richard Bach · 144 pages
Wonderfully written, a glimpse into faith, self-reliance and friendship, witty and thought provoking. Barnstorming pilot meets a messianic man who has misgivings about his purpose. His scripture is captured in a greasy spiral bound notebook and he changes the lives of all he meets.
The Bluest Eye; Sula ; Song Of Solomon
Toni Morrison · 337 pages
Catch-22
Joseph Heller · 463 pages
*Catch-22* is like no other novel. It has its own rationale, its own extraordinary character. It moves back and forth from hilarity to horror. It is outrageously funny and strangely affecting. It is totally original. Set in the closing months of World War II in an American bomber squadron off Italy, *Catch-22* is the story of a bombardier named Yossarian, who is frantic and furious because thousan
West with the Night
Beryl Markham · 293 pages
West with the Night is the story of Beryl Markham--aviator, racehorse trainer, beauty--and her life in the Kenya of the 1920s and '30s.
Pylon
William Faulkner · 315 pages
Relates the experiences of four individuals competing in an aviation contest during the Mardi Gras celebration in New Orleans.
Nausicaä of the Valley of Wind: Perfect Collection Boxed Set
Hayao Miyazaki · 175 pages
Fair Stood the Wind for France
H.E. Bates · 256 pages
An English fighter pilot brings his plane down in Occupied France during WWII. The family of a French farmer risk their lives to protect him. He and the daughter of the house are drawn to each other, but it is not time to fall in love.
The Sword of Honour Trilogy
Evelyn Waugh · 710 pages
"This trilogy spanning World War II, based in part on Evelyn Waugh's own experiences as an army officer, is the author's surpassing achievement as a novelist. Its central character is Guy Crouchback, head of an ancient but decayed Catholic family, who at first discovers new purpose in the challenge to defend Christian values against Nazi barbarism, but then gradually finds the complexities and cru
Our Ancestors: The Cloven Viscount, The Baron in the Trees, The Non-Existent Knight
Italo Calvino · 385 pages
Complete Novels: The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter / Reflections in a Golden Eye / The Ballad of the Sad Cafe / The Member of the Wedding / Clock Without Hands
Carson McCullers · 827 pages